> Matthias Saou (matthias@egwn.net) wrote*:
> >As Red Hat does, I really don't recommend trying to upgrade between betas
> >or from a beta to a final release either. Simply backup your /home, /etc
> >(and /root and/or /usr/local/ if needed) then reinstall cleanly, it'll
> >probably save a few hassles and you'll get the cleanest possible system ;-)
>
> I think this is probably the best way, because I think (maybe) with upgrading you
> do not always automatically get the latest feature enabled in some config file
> because RH would rather take it easy and not update that config file (you get a
> rpmnew instead of rpmsaved file) so they get less calls to support that way.
If you dislike Red Hat, why use it ? This was a really bad argument
against using Red Hat that makes no sense at all.  I for one am GLAD that
they
a) don't overwrite your config files on a whim (be GLAD they don't do some
sort of autodetection and changing crap)
b) tell you on rpm upgrade what config files you should look at because
formats have changed.
Red Hat is not "taking it easy" on this, it's putting control in the hands
of you, the maintainer of the machine.  Don't be lazy.
> Anyway, I have tons of media files in /home/* probably 5 to 10 gigs at least, my
> laptop's CDROM takes 700MB at a time (obviously) and compressing media files is
> dumb because they are already compressed. Dumb question: how to backup huge data?
> Network backup to another box? I do not have a box with a tape drive, but maybe box
> with a large HD with much free space could take the backup (oops, I do not have a
> space computer with a large HD with much free space).
You don't need to backup /home if you are careful enough.  You did put
/home on a separate partition, no ? Just install rh80 and tell it to use
the same partition as /home and tell it to NOT format it, but keep the
data as is.
If you didn't put /home on a separate partition, then you really do need
to make backups.  Use an nfs or smb mount from another machine to backup
and rsync straight to the mount, or if that's not possible, rsync over
ssh.  It's the best way to make backups.
> These media files are backed up - ON THE CD'S THEY CAME FROM!
It's the other way around - your media files are backups of the CD's they
came from ;)
Good luck,
Thomas
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