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Upgrading is the process of changing a system to a different, higher/newer version. It is similar to patching or updating (and for some software, may even be as simple as applying patches or updates, but is generally more involved and more comprehensive than the process for installing patches or updates.

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*tiny* SOHO fileserver upgrade recommendations in 2012?

I say 2012 as we'll likely be buying last year's hardware. We're non-profit (a two-man operation), and this purchase isn't on project funding, so we're cost-restricted, but I always advocate for long-term investment rather than the quick fix. We…
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Ubuntu unattended upgrades to run at a certain time

I'm trying to work out the best way to run unattended upgrades every Thursday at 3am but can only see a way to run this weekly but not a given time. I thought of one way would be to have a script that is called by cron on Thursday at 3am The below…
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How to merge .rpmnew files in Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)?

A few .rpmnew files are being created after performing an upgrade of the Fedora OS. The normal procedure for merging .rpmnew files into the original ones is to compare the differences, make the necessary changes to the configuration on the .rpmnew…
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Upgrading Live CentOS / cPanel Servers

Can you upgrade cPanel/WHM servers with CentOS 4.9 and 5.8 up to CentOS 6.x?
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Is Linux 3 kernel series compatible with CentOS 6?

For proper TPROXY support I was looking for a STABLE Linux kernel of at least version 3.2.30. Do they want us to upgrade to version 3 of the kernel? And is that compatible with CentOS 6?
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OTRS upgrade 3.0 to 3.1 fails

Today I've started upgrading OTRS from version 2.3 to 2.4 , 2.4 to 3.0 and 3.0 to 3.1. Everything went smoothly except the upgrade from 3.0 to 3.1 OTRS provides a few perl scripts which make the upgrade easier. I've used these scripts for each…
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Where to store big data (best practices)

I am installing a fresh Ubuntu on our lab server. We have lots of massive genomes which need to be accessed by Apache www-data user. Currently I backed all the data up on external drives. My goal is to have a fresh Ubuntu, install new web apps on…
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Why does EC2 instance have problems upgrading my Ubuntu server to 12.04?

I just tried upgrading our Ubuntu EC2 server to 12.04 from 11.10, and it halts on several package upgrades, starting with memtest86+. CTRL+C is the only way out, and in the end there is the following error: Errors were encountered while processing: …
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Replace CPU of HP server

Suppose we have a problem with a processor or would like to replace to a more powerful one. Is it possible? I found one article that explain the process for DL385 but not sure if this is only for a new server defective processor replacement.
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best practice for debian distribution upgrade - what happens with the rest of the LAMP?

I am planning of upgrading the LAMP stack that I have. Debian Lenny 5.09 - current version is 6.0 Apache 2.2.9 - current 2.2.21 MySQL 5.0.51a - current 5.5.20 PHP 5.2.6 - current PHP 5.3.9 I am curious if I should start with the debian upgrade and…
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MySQL upgrade from 5.0 to 5.5

I would like to upgrade MySQL from version 5.0 (I have 5.0.86) to 5.5 (let's say 5.5.17) After some search, i found this method : Dump the databases but not mysql databse in a backup_data.sql This is the most important step: dump mysql database…
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Windows Server 2008 Crash

My server has been restarting almost daily, some times twice a day. This started after changing the raid drives with larger drives. My log for the raid says everything is fine and has not had a single issue saving. The Windows event logs have no…
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Ubuntu: Cannot apt-get upgrade server, dpkg permission denied even when root?

I've ran a general audit of the system and found that a few packages were aging, such as OpenSSH and related so I went to apt-get update then upgrade. Unfortunately it seems to get the packages correctly (downloading), however cannot finish the…
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SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise Compatible

We currently have SQL 2008 (non R2) installed on our development server. Our production server has SQL 2008 R2 Standard, so we would like to upgrade our development server so they are "compatible". Can I install Enterprise on the development server…
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How to upgrade Bugzilla on Windows

I installed Bugzilla with the handy Windows Installer (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Win32InstallPackages) I'm trying to upgrade to 3.6.3 following these instructions. I've downloaded the tarball and get to step 2.7.3.4 but my webserver starts…
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