On Wed, 18 May 2011 09:20:53 +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote: > I have a new LAN to administer, I have 8 Debian production servers which > have been configured by someone else. I try to make a reasonable > update/upgrade policy for those servers. Till now (for my home servers) > I used aptitude update/upgrade and it was ok. But here every server has > many services (Oracje, JBoss, VMWare 2 Server, ...) and I think that now > I should be more careful. > > Should upgrades/updates be made automatically or manually?
Manually, always. > What additional steps could be made? Update on non working days, when you can easily leave the machine powered off (always expect for the worse). > When should be dist-upgrade made? I prefer to install any new version from scratch, keeping the old system on a separate partition that can be booted wherenever I want and install the new version in parallel. That allows me to have a system ready to use and not depending on how will be the upgrade :-) > One one site I have read that Debian's policy is to use stable versions > and only add security updates... what do you think? That's true for the "stable" branch. It's a good policy, imo. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.18.11.03...@gmail.com
