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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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do-release-upgrade -d Ubuntu 13.10 -> 14.04 failing

Ubuntu 13.10 64 server, after doing one upgrade from 13.04 -> 13.10 then attempting 13.10 -> 14.04. I had a transient network failure downloading package lists for 14.04 once which stopped the process, trying to restart the process results in the…
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Tons of "invalid command \N" when restoring a dump

I'm following these instructions to upgrade postgres from 9.1 to 9.3: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/upgrading.html When I restore (Step 8), I get a ton of messages like this: psql:/mnt/dumps/pre-upgrade.dump:61028: invalid command…
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Should I get rackmounted or tower servers for in-house use?

Currently we have about 8 or so in-house servers, all of which are Dell towers. We've never needed to upgrade them in a way other than more memory or a HD swap. There’s a 10 foot wide or so rack system that everything is on (servers, network…
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Unattended upgrades doesn't upgrade (or does nothing at all)

I've been trying to make the package unattended-upgrades running under Debian GNU/Linux (7.0) with no success so far. The steps I have followed: Install unattended-upgrades Enable it sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades Uncomment the…
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apt-get dist-upgrade on a production machine

I have a couple of blogs running on an Ubuntu 9.04 machine and I'd like to upgrade it. Is it safe to do so? Note, I also have a few daemons that were manually compiled like MySQL, Nginx, PHP, etc.
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How do you upgrade the Ubuntu Version without upgrading the packages?

I need to upgrade the Ubuntu Version on my servers, but I do not want to upgrade the installed packages. Is this possible?
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Upgrading Windows Server 2008 R2 to 2016 sequentially

Our goal is to upgrade a machine from Windows Server (WS) 2008 R2 to WS 2016. For now, we don't want to perform a clean-install to the server OS. But according to Microsoft documentation, there is no direct path to upgrade from WS 2008 R2 to WS 2016…
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Supplier proposes upgrade to 2016, we're running 2008r2, should we do it?

To be clear: I'm not asking for opinions, rather I'm looking for data/facts/insights that will help me get closer to forming my own opinion. Context We're about to upgrade our servers (as they're old), and our current supplier is proposing to put…
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Best practices for an in-place upgrade from Server 2008r2 to 2016/2019?

I've got several web servers running Server 2008r2 SP2 Standard with SQL Server 2014. What is the best practice / easiest in-place upgrade path to get to Windows Server 2016? In testing, I'm only able to upgrade from 2008r2 to 2012 and then upgrade…
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HP Proliant ml350p g8 not booting after installing new CPUs

Our server: HP Proliant ml350p g8 has a single Xeon e5-2609 1.4Ghz processor. Our manager wanted to update it a little, so we looked at 2x E5-2609V2 processors...we ran it past HP Enterprise chat who said it was compatible. We now have the new CPUs…
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Nginx 1.6.3 to 1.8 upgrade

I'm on Linux Mint LMDE. I just receive a upgrade of nginx from 1.6.3 to 1.8.0 with aptitude and now, I got blank page on all my websites Here my configuration : server { listen 80; root /var/www/phpmyadmin; index…
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Debian unattended-upgrades does not upgrade all packages

I have installed the Debian unattended-upgrades package. It upgrades most, but not all packages. If I execute apt-get upgrade after it has run, a few more packages will be installed. Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb…
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unattended-upgrades does not reboot

I am running Debian 7 stable with unattended-upgrades (every morning at 6 AM) to make sure I am always fully updated. I have the following config: $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades // Automatically upgrade packages from these origin…
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Upgrading Postgres.app 9.1 to 9.2, getting lc_collate values do not match error

I'm upgrading a Postgres.app on my Macbook Pro (my development machine) and I'm getting an error when I run: pg_upgrade -b /Users/foo/Library/PostgreSQL/9.1/bin/ -B /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/ -d…
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Apache not starting after upgrade to OpenSuse 12.1

Few days back, I upgraded to openSuse 12.1 from openSuse 11.04 vai online upgrade. Now if try to start apache server as - sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start it gives error as - redirecting to systemctl Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl…
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