Hello,
Apologies this is a very simple question and posing this question is really seeking clarification / confidence boosting than much else.
I came onboard with proxmox right at the time the licensing changed - I don't (currently) have a support subscription.
Nevertheless I do have updates to apply to my host server both from debian repos in general and proxmox specifically :
On any other server I'd be comfortable as I'd know 'what is what' and so if this was safe. But I treat proxmox like an appliance so I'm not really sure :
- What is safe to update. Particularly in context of updates coming from two discrete sources at once (proxmox repo and debian repo). I'm presuming all of it...? Are there ever clashes or unsupported configs?
- What ones I should be concerned about in terms of system stability and availability. Particularly any that necessitate a reboot. apt has held back proxmox-ve-2.6.32 pve-manager which is usually a sign they're a bit more important than the other / need to be done in tandem. What are these? Is this a kernel update and the equivalent management toolchain which must be install to work with this new version? And therefore I would need to reboot the host (and all guests)?
Generally - what considerations should be taken when updating the host machine like this and is it generally a safe and reliable process. Do people do this? Or simply bump between major releases as necessary?
Ultimately I have full backups (Both vzdump and granular file level backups) of all my guests offsite so worst comes to the worst I simply reinstall promox on the host (in <5 minutes) and reimport them. But it would be nice to avoid that and gain confidence in the process
Thanks for any help!
Apologies this is a very simple question and posing this question is really seeking clarification / confidence boosting than much else.
I came onboard with proxmox right at the time the licensing changed - I don't (currently) have a support subscription.
Nevertheless I do have updates to apply to my host server both from debian repos in general and proxmox specifically :
Code:
# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
proxmox-ve-2.6.32 pve-manager
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt apt-transport-https apt-utils base-files bind9-host bootlogd ceph-common dnsutils dpkg fence-agents-pve glusterfs-client glusterfs-common
gnupg gpgv grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common initscripts krb5-locales libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12 libbind9-80 libcurl3-gnutls
libdbus-1-3 libdns88 libexpat1 libgcrypt11 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssrpc4 libisc84 libisccc80 libisccfg82 libk5crypto3 libkadm5clnt-mit8
libkadm5srv-mit8 libkdb5-6 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 liblwres80 libnspr4 libnss3 libperl5.14 libpixman-1-0 libpve-access-control
libpve-common-perl libpve-storage-perl librados2 librbd1 libsensors4 libssl1.0.0 libwbclient0 libxml2 libxml2-utils mutt nmap openssl perl
perl-base perl-modules pve-cluster pve-libspice-server1 python python-ceph python-minimal python-openssl qemu-server samba-common smbclient
sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils tzdata vncterm vzctl
75 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 56.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 641 kB disk space will be freed.On any other server I'd be comfortable as I'd know 'what is what' and so if this was safe. But I treat proxmox like an appliance so I'm not really sure :
- What is safe to update. Particularly in context of updates coming from two discrete sources at once (proxmox repo and debian repo). I'm presuming all of it...? Are there ever clashes or unsupported configs?
- What ones I should be concerned about in terms of system stability and availability. Particularly any that necessitate a reboot. apt has held back proxmox-ve-2.6.32 pve-manager which is usually a sign they're a bit more important than the other / need to be done in tandem. What are these? Is this a kernel update and the equivalent management toolchain which must be install to work with this new version? And therefore I would need to reboot the host (and all guests)?
Generally - what considerations should be taken when updating the host machine like this and is it generally a safe and reliable process. Do people do this? Or simply bump between major releases as necessary?
Ultimately I have full backups (Both vzdump and granular file level backups) of all my guests offsite so worst comes to the worst I simply reinstall promox on the host (in <5 minutes) and reimport them. But it would be nice to avoid that and gain confidence in the process
Thanks for any help!
