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