Thursday, January 14, 2010

QA and Prod upgrade path

  • Save an image in case of botched upgrade to 7.6 (in a VM preferably)
  • Backup (to remote location)
  • Upgrade to 7.6
  • Save an image in case of botched upgrade to 64 bit OS (in a VM preferably)
  • Backup again (to remote location)
  • Upgrade OS to 64 bit suse 10
  • Add memory double or triple current
  • copy folders & files from upgraded 32bit backups made earlier

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