[CentOS] OS upgrade from CentOS 6.x version.
Kaushal Shriyan
kaushalshriyan at gmail.com
Sun Jun 9 08:33:36 UTC 2013
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:57 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 6/9/2013 1:14 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> > Do i need to update it to the
> > latest version
>
> need? no. should? probably.
>
>
Thanks John for the quick reply. Not sure i understand your reply.
>
> > and is it recommended to use yum update command to update to
> > 6.5 on a production environment without testing.
>
> if 'production' means what it does in my $job's enterprise environment,
> absolutely not. we do nothing to a production environment without
> testing first in a staging environment that replicates
> production. updated of complicated production systems is tricky.
>
> that said, things like development servers, hobby internet webservers
> running a few blogs and stuff, things like that, I regularly do yum
> update's on, but I also have backups if its at all important, so I can
> revert to last night if there's a problem.
You said backups. Any backup program you suggest to back up all
configuration files and data?
Regards
Kaushal
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