Just spreading love for sysupgrade(8). I had a private server running 7.2 dutyfully serving a PHP software for a local organisation for the past 4 years.

Our provider suffered an outage which brought the server down for a few hours. When it got back up, I decided to use this outage to upgrade it to 7.4.

Two sysupgrade and one pkg_add -u later, the server is up and running again, without further intervention needed.

I did it all from my phone, in a train with a a laggy connection.

Thanks OpenBSD for caring this much about your users ! 🐡♥️

  • unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    No problems in the couple of years that I’ve used it, but upgrading in the past wasn’t painfully terrible either. Just fetch bsd.rd and boot into that.

    Of course you couldn’t do it remotely, but the historical ease of updating highlights the well-engineered simplicity of OpenBSD.