Re: Upgrading clients using rsync

2015-03-05 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 04-03-15 om 23:21 schreef Bob Proulx: > Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> I have successfully upgraded clients from Debian7 to Debian8 using rysnc. > > You have company using rsync to upgrade file by file. Google upgrades > that way too. I liked presentation and found it quite interesting. > >

Re: Upgrading clients using rsync

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul van der Vlis wrote: > I have successfully upgraded clients from Debian7 to Debian8 using rysnc. You have company using rsync to upgrade file by file. Google upgrades that way too. I liked presentation and found it quite interesting. http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2014-01-06_My

Re: Upgrading clients using rsync

2015-03-04 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 04-03-15 om 12:04 schreef Catalin Soare: > I suppose they're partitioned in a similar manner. All clients are using CSM [1], what emulates a legacy BIOS. Or don't have UEFI. I have not tested this with UEFI, maybe it would need some extra tweeking and excludes. With regards, Paul van der Vl

Re: Upgrading clients using rsync

2015-03-04 Thread Pol Hallen
Nice work Paul! Thanks :-) Pol On 03/04/2015 11:24 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, I have successfully upgraded clients from Debian7 to Debian8 using rysnc. First I did a fresh new install with Debian8 on a client. Then I used rsync to make a backup of that to the server. After that I us

Re: Upgrading clients using rsync

2015-03-04 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 04-03-15 om 12:04 schreef Catalin Soare: > May I trouble you with some details about this? I am curious about the > disks setup on your clients, I suppose they're partitioned in a similar > manner. Yes, that's right. Root is always "/dev/sda1" and swap is always "/dev/sda5" at this customer.

Re: Upgrading clients using rsync

2015-03-04 Thread Catalin Soare
On Mar 4, 2015 12:24 PM, "Paul van der Vlis" wrote: > > Hello, > > I have successfully upgraded clients from Debian7 to Debian8 using rysnc. > > First I did a fresh new install with Debian8 on a client. > Then I used rsync to make a backup of that to the server. > > After that I used rsync again t