OS upgrade via SSH

[Mark Haney]

What's the status on being able to upgrade a server via SSH?  I've upgraded
a couple of Ubuntu servers that way, but how about Fedora? This is a pretty
plain server, just used for storing data. No third party repos, etc.

Is it considered moderately safe? Or should I avoid like the plague?


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[fred roller]

If you can replicate your server a test run in virtual environment may be
worth the effort.

Fred Roller
On Jul 22, 2016 11:01 AM, "Mark Haney" <mark.haney(a)vifprogram.com&gt; wrote:

>  What's the status on being able to upgrade a server via SSH? 
> I've
>  upgraded a couple of Ubuntu servers that way, but how about Fedora? This is
>  a pretty plain server, just used for storing data. No third party repos,
>  etc.
>
>  Is it considered moderately safe? Or should I avoid like the plague?
>
>
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[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:01:16AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
>  What's the status on being able to upgrade a server via SSH? 
> I've upgraded
>  a couple of Ubuntu servers that way, but how about Fedora? This is a pretty
>  plain server, just used for storing data. No third party repos, etc.
>  Is it considered moderately safe? Or should I avoid like the plague? 
I just did it (using `dnf system-upgrade`) and it worked fine. There's
less to go wrong with that approach vs. doing a "live" dnf update — but
on the other hand, it feels a little bit scarier if you don't have
console access. (Which, thankfully, is increasingly common for remote
servers these days.) 


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[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:01:16 -0400,
  Mark Haney <mark.haney(a)vifprogram.com&gt; wrote:
> What's the status on being able to upgrade a server via SSH? 
> I've upgraded
> a couple of Ubuntu servers that way, but how about Fedora? This is a pretty
> plain server, just used for storing data. No third party repos, etc.
>
> Is it considered moderately safe? Or should I avoid like the plague? 
I'd recommend using screen in your ssh session in case the ssh session 
gets nuked during the upgrade. It reduces the chance you'll need to 
do a big clean up.

[Mark Haney]

Yeah, that was my plan all along, to use screen that is, I was just wanting
to see if others have done similar upgrades recently and what their
experiences have been.  Thanks, all!


On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to&gt; wrote:

>  On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:01:16 -0400,
>   Mark Haney <mark.haney(a)vifprogram.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > What's the status on being able to upgrade a server via SSH?  I've
> > upgraded
> > a couple of Ubuntu servers that way, but how about Fedora? This is a
> > pretty
> > plain server, just used for storing data. No third party repos, etc.
> >
> > Is it considered moderately safe? Or should I avoid like the plague?
> >
>
>  I'd recommend using screen in your ssh session in case the ssh session
>  gets nuked during the upgrade. It reduces the chance you'll need to do a
>  big clean up.
>  


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Mark Haney ::: Senior Systems Engineer
*VIF* *International Education*
P.O. Box 3566 ::: Chapel Hill, N.C. 27515 ::: USA
919-265-5006 office

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