On 7/18/2011 10:37 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>
>>>> So, how can I get it my CentOS from 5.6 to 6.0?
>>> Backup data
>>> Clean install
>>> Restore data.
>>
>> You left out the hard part which is ensuring that 'data' does not
>> conflict with any new files from the 6.x install, which anything under
>> /etc or /var most likely will, and then making sure that the parts of
>> 'data' that you need from those conflicting files are added back in a
>> compatible way, which will generally be non-trivial.
>>
> Less, are you talking about user data (meant by Brian) or about config
> data of the system?
The system isn't going to work the way you expect until you do both, so
I guess the answer is 'yes'.
You can sort-of generalize about how to handle your config data under
/etc and all of the application dot-files in home directories, and your
databases and applications with data under /var, but there are a lot of
special cases.
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Les Mikesell
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