Debian upgrade rollback

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:56:36AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> You would have to restore everything to be sure you had rolled back
> everything.  Sounds very likely to go wrong.
> 
> Some people do it by breaking a raid1 before doing an upgrade.  If the
> upgrade is bad, they switch to the other disk and resync the raid from
> that.  If it works fine, they simply add the other disk back into the
> raid and resync.

Of course in the 10 years of running Debian I have never had a need to
do any of this.  It has always been fixable.

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Len Sorensen
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