Migration How To

[Terry Polzin]

On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 14:35 -0500, Gene Poole wrote:
> OK, I realize that I'm behind on my personal systems.  That being
> said, I want to migrate from Fedora 13 to Fedora 16 and at the end of
> it all, drop VMware Server 2.0.2 in favor of the latest KVM and move
> from Oracle 11gR2 database to PostgreSQL database.. To complicate
> things more, I'm running Raid-1 on 2 - Hitachi Deskstar 1.5 TB drives
> with multiple partitions (including /boot). 
> 
> I've read that you can only migrate a single version when using
> Anaconda (i.e. Fedora 13 --> Fedora 14 --> Fedora 15 --> Fedora 16),
> so I can see the a full migration may take about a week.  At each
> stop, what should I verify to determine if the upgrade went OK? Should
> I stop my Oracle, JBoss and other applications prior to the upgrade? 
> 
> Is there some pieces of wisdom any of you can give me on this task? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Gene Poole 
> 
> + It's impossible for everything to be true. +

Although you can migrate, best Fedora practice is to backup what's
important and reinstall