[Malvern] Upgrading the Kernel.

[Andy Dixon]

Geoff Bagley wrote:
> I guess a first step will be to rsync everything of value onto one of 
> the other two machines, and then,
> afterwards, to rsync them back again if they should happen to fall foul 
> of the two upgrades.
> 
Firstly, sorry, I meant to reply to the list and not directly. I really 
should pay more attention..

Secondly, as long as you make a backup, that would be the safest bet. I 
  would be inclined (if you have a spare disk) to try doing a recovery 
onto another disk just to make sure its a working backup and that you 
can recover. In the past, I have been in a similar position, however 
whenever everything broke and I tried restoring from backup, it failed.

Its probably a good idea to try the new version, as I have found with 
Linux, its down to personal choice - I prefer Gentoo, whereas a 
colleague at work prefers Fedora and nothing else. It may work out, it 
may not.

Andy

PS - Never tried rsync for a backup. I have used it to force preferences 
around a network to make sure users use a specific set of preferences, 
but never for a backup. I'm more of a tar -cjvf person.