On 11/06/15 06:51 PM, Stephen wrote:
I have been running Ubuntu for over a decade. Always did Internet upgrades.
But the last one, to 12.04 broke my PHP and the only solution I have found is to do a clean install.
I'm with the others -- the problem should be fixable. I've dealt with some messy upgrade problems at times, but I've *never* had to do a clean install. A problem with one package should be fixable, even if the fix is tricky...
[...] I think a few of you might be able to offer a tips.
The system will be a desktop and also a LAMP server. I plan to install the desktop and then add the AMP.
I will back up the databases using mysqldump, save the Apache .conf files as well as fstab.
Anything else I should consider? Thanks
For what it's worth on backups... - I'm a fan of automysqlbackup (in the Ubuntu and Debian repositories) for MySQL backups, which is a wrapper script for mysqldump that compresses, rotates, saves daily/weekly/monthly versions, notifies on error, etc. - For filesystem backups, rsnapshot is pretty great for incremental, versioned backups Other packages I often install on a clean Ubuntu/Debian server: - logwatch: log analyser - fail2ban: ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors - munin: gathers graphs for performance monitoring