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On 01/14/2012 05:22, Jeff wrote:
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<div>I have PCBSD 8.1, 64bit, and would like to upgrade to 9.0.</div>
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<div>I have several Warden jails setup running Drupal 6 which
requires PHP 5.2 and though no longer supported, can still be
installed.</div>
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<div>Will I be able to reimport these jails to V9 or will I have
to rebuild them? These jails were originally built in PCBSD 7
and imported to 8.1.<br>
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<div>Of course I'll have to reinstall all of the PBIs and other
programs installed from ports in the base system, but will I
be able to copy over the config files from /home and not skip
a beat, so to speak?</div>
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<div>Can't say I've had much luck in the past trying that route,
though not sure why. Especially concerned about things like
Firefox where I have a gazillion add-ons that would be a royal
pain to setup from scratch again.</div>
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<div>The last time I tried this, upgrading from 7 to 8,
importing config files didn't work and I had to start from
scratch. Not looking to repeat that nightmare!</div>
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<div>What should I do to ensure a smooth upgrade?</div>
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<div>Thanks, Jeff<br>
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Jeff,<br>
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What i've done in this case is just backup my home directory to a
tar file:<br>
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% cd ~<br>
% tar cvzf home-bak.tgz --exclude ./home-back.tgz .<br>
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Then save that file somewhere, and after installing 9.0, bring it
back to the system and extract the bits I needed:<br>
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% tar xvf home-bak.tgz .mozilla<br>
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That gets your firefox stuff back, same can be done with
.thunderbird, etc. Just be warned, you may need to remake the flash
plugin with "flashpluginctl off && flashpluginctl on" to get
the latest one for 9. <br>
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As for the jails, I would simple back those up in the same manner to
a tar file, and move them to the new system to re-enable them. BTW,
are those jails still running 7.x? You may want to update those as
some point as well :)<br>
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Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
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