I passed the CVOICE certification exam today, which doubles as my CCNA-Voice cert as well. I now have two exams of the five I need for CCVP: CIPT1 and CVOICE. Next up is CIPT2… which should be considerably more focused than the CVOICE material. I’ll try to get that complete before the end of November. That will leave me with the QOS and the Troubleshooting exams to round out the winter.

Here is one way to do it that worked like a breeze for me. I upgraded from version 2.7 to 2.8.4. Here’s what I did:

There were three things I wanted to do with this upgrade. One, make sure I didn’t lose anything; two, be sure I had a backout/restore plan; and three, minimize downtime.
I. Backup the existing site files:
Do a mysqldump of the database and tar backup of all the site files:

mysqldump -u root -p tburnsBlog > /path/to/backupLocation/tburnsBlog.sql
tar cvzf /path/to/backupLocation/tburns.com.tar.gz /path/to/DocumentRoot/tburns.com

Read more »