Re: [BackupPC-users] Upgrading from etch to lenny

[Jim M. <jim...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Ward... James Ward <je...@to...>wrote:

> Have you specifically done a dist-upgrade from etch to lenny?
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> On Jun 10, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Jim McNamara wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ward... James Ward <je...@to...>wrote:
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>> I have two etch BackupPC servers and two lenny BackupPC servers.  All were
>> built at the OS level currently running.  I like the new BackupPC interface
>> a lot and would like to upgrade the etch servers to lenny and therefore
>> BackupPC.  How smoothly is this likely to go?  Any HOWTOs or READMEs or
>> gotchas I can study beforehand?
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>> Thanks,
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>> James
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> I've had backuppc running on Debian boxes since sarge. Upgrading the OS
> never caused a problem for me. My hosts tend to backup single digit machine
> on LANs, but I haven't even seen a hiccup from doing the dist-upgrades.
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Yes, I did upgrade from Etch to Lenny on over 20 machines running backuppc,
none of them had any issues.

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