Rebuilding "world" without physical access

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:53:05PM +0200, ?ystein Holmen wrote:
> I have usually followed the canonical way to update my system, as  
> described in the handbook. But now I need to update a system that I  
> cannot reach physically for a long time. Is there any way to do this?  
> The system runs primarily as a webserver, and it doesn't have many  
> users. Could I just stop apache and follow the canonical way, except  
> I don't go into single user mode?

You could if you are lucky, but what disaster recovery plan do you
have in case something goes wrong and the system becomes unusable?

Kris
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