safest way to upgrade a production server

[Sahil Tandon]

John Almberg <jalmberg at identry.com> wrote:

> So, my first question is, do I really need to do this?

Not unless you can identify a good reason (i.e. feature requirements, 
security, end-of-life).  6.3 end-of-life is estimated around January 
31, 2010, so you still have some time. :-)
 
> If so, what is the minimum amount of upgrading I can do to be safe?  
> And how?

Upgrade ports based on security/feature requirements.  We generally do 
not "upgrade" production servers from one release to another while 
they're still expected to be in production.

You'll probably get a lot of different suggestions from this list -- 
good luck!

-- 
Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>