upgrade to jessie, what to backup

[Jude DaShiell]

tar -cprf etc.tar.gz /etc may work a little better.  The -r switch says 
recursive backup which gets everything under the /etc directory and the 
-p switch preserves all of those attributes.

On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, John G Heim wrote:

> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:02:48
> From: John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
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> Subject: Re: upgrade to jessie, what to backup
> 
> Grub failed on the 2 upgrades I have done so far. I'm way behind in 
> getting to it and both times I was in such a rush I just let 'er fly. 
> Bad idea. I ended up having to boot from grml and re-install grub. There 
> was probably some kind of warning during the upgrade itself but I must 
> have missed it.
>
> The only other bad thing was that going from wheezy to jessie on our web 
> server upgraded us from apache2.2 to apache2.4 and apache wouldn't 
> restart. I had to fix several things in the config files. If I had it to 
> do over again, i'd probably do apache2 and grup2 first, and then do the 
> dist-upgrade.
>
>
>
> On 11/05/2015 12:38 AM, Tom Fowle wrote:
>> Planning to upgrade from wheezie to jessie.
>> Backing up to a usb external hard drive, I've done everything under /home
>> and /etc.
>> Is there anything else I should backup? or other things to be aware of
>> before or during the upgrade?
>> Thanks
>> tom Fowle
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