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 have /home on a separate drive so I expect that this is not a big deal. But 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
You could use a configuration management system to declare what the final state of the machine should be once you've finished. I've been learning SaltStack <http://docs.saltstack.com> over the last couple of days and I'm quite impressed. I'm using a masterless minion setup due to the fact that the machines that I'm deploying are intended to run behind a firewall with no access to the Internet. Here is a resource I found useful: <http://eon01.com/blog/using-saltstack-to-automate-vagrant-provisioning/>. You don't have to use Vagrant but you might want to once you see how easy it is to go from deploying your VM locally on VirtualBox to deploying to an Amazon EC2 instance, for example. -- Regards, Clifford Ilkay +1 647-778-8696