On 8/3/05, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 11:43 PM -0700 8/2/05, sudo Yang wrote: > >What would be the easiest way to upgrade 2000 servers from RedHat 9 to > >Fedora or RedHat Enterprise/CentOS? Also, 1/2 of these systems have 1 > >TB data partition that cannot be destroyed. > > > >Would an upgrade option work via Kickstart? > > Holy Cr*p! Why would you take the risk? Leave it alone! You can upgrade > to RHEL over the next few years one machine at a time as each machine is > replaced. > > You certainly should make a backup first. If you can't manage that, you > should not proceed. Note that a backup is any "safe" /copy/ of the data; > if you plan on destroying the original, the one copy becomes the "original" > and you need another copy for a backup. Yes, we have redundancy in the system. Any any one time, there's always 2-3 copies of the data. We are planning to upgrade one system at a time, even if kickstart is used. Kickstart will be used mainly for automation and repeatability. > I don't know if you have 1000 TB of data, or 1000 systems that share copies > of the same 1 TB of data. The second case is much easier to handle. The > first case requires doing each machine separately, taking care that no data > is lost from any machine. Hopefully you have some form of redundancy in > the system already. That's 1000 systems each holding 1 TB of data, so yes, 1000 TB. > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
