Re: Upgrade plans

["Viron, Michael" <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>]

do you have ftp enabled on yukon? (or the encrypted equivalent)  If you
do, you could always put together a script to tar the directories you want
to backup, then ftp them to yukon--at which point you could back them up
to the tape drive on yukon--just a thought....

Mike

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Aaron Turner wrote:

> 
> Well,
> 
> Here's the plan:
> 
> 1) I'm not going to upgrade the RH versions on the boxes.  Mostly this is
> an issue of time I'd rather spend doing other things (like coding).  It's
> also since I'm a big fan of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
> 
> 2) I will upgrade the kernel on Yukon.  I know of existing bugs in the
> 2.2.7 kernel we're using which will become problems when we start
> experiancing heavier loads.  This should be a rather painless event other
> than the reboot required.  I plan to do this Saturday.  I'm going to
> assume that anytime is ok, unless someone speaks up and tells me
> otherwise.
> 
> 3) I haven't decided on upgrading Vodka's kernel.  There are a number of
> reasons for this:
> 	- Moving to 2.2.x on a 5.2 system requires certain dependancies to
> 	be resolved
> 	- 2.2.x isn't as big of a difference from 2.0.x on single CPU
> 	systems
> 	- We're currently using software RAID on this system, and I have
> 	concerns about the RAID code being incompatible (I'm researching this)
> 	- The impact on the developers by taking down Vodka is bigger.
> 
> The earliest I'd do Vodka is Sunday.
> 
> 4) I'll let Jason worry about upgrading MySQL.  The security bug recently
> discovered in it doesn't apply to us.
> 
> 5) I will upgrade BIND to the latest version.  Shouldn't have any impact
> since we have secondaries.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions of how to backup the systems?  tar?  Yukon has
> this nice 12/24GB tape drive.  It might be worthwhile doing sometime.  Any
> ideas how to backup Vodka?
> 
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