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On 08/23/2018 10:27 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi <zoltan@××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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>> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite |
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>> a long while, actually. |
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>> It seems that I'm kind of stuck. Wiping the disk and rebuilding the |
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>> system from scratch is absolutely not an option, the existing (and |
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>> running) system must be updated somehow. |
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> Doing a reinstall will probably be far less work and less disruption |
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> for the machines user's. You don't have to "wipe the disk" to do a |
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> re-install. |
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Yeah. |
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I would suggest after the back up then you simply clone the disk and |
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perform the re-install on another computer or in a VM so that you can |
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fiddle with things and then just swap out the drives vs having down-time |
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for your users potentially for days if something goes wrong on the |
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actual server. |
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It is what I do for situations like this and it works great. |
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