Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

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On 12/11/2010 08:58 AM, Kam Leo wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Joachim Backes
> <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     having the following question: sometimes it happens that after an
>     upgrade of a Fedora-x to a Fedora-y, the Fedora-y does not run correctly
>     (there may be a lot of reasons for this...). So going back to a running
>     system, but how to achieve this?
> 
>     So my question (or proposal): it would be very helpful if an upgrade
>     could be done to a new partition (including copying all imporant files
>     from the Fedora to be updated). This would save oneself a lot of backups
>     and restores.
> 
>     Is the current anaconda able to fulfill such things?
> 
>     Kind regards
> 
> 
> What important files?

For example config files in /etc, or rpms for which no upgrade is
available,...
> 
> If you got the drive space just do the install to the new partition(s)
> and copy your "important" data from the old distro to the new.

That's exactly the problem. I'm working very long (since years) with
fedora (and RedHat), but I really don't know all files which are
important for a running fedora.

Kind regards

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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