<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks for the advice. Last time I think I just copied over certain directories and likely missed some important ones - bad idea.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Would it be better to compress each jail to a .wdn file to import later or can I simply tar the /usr/local/warden/jails/ directory and move it over to the new install?</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>...Jeff<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> testing@lists.pcbsd.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:29 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [PC-BSD Testing] Upgrade question<br> </font> </div> <br>
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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
iXsystems</pre>
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