By morning (Jan 4), the UPS will be fully charged and I’ll boot the server when I wake up. The process of updating the whole server will be major brain surgery and it’ll be an all day task.

Tasks:

• Put the server online the morning of 1/4/2008.
• Update the system software first, then other miscellaneous software last.

The primary planned purposes for this server will be a local rsync/distfiles cache. Setup regular cron jobs to rsync two or three times a week. Possibly also a DNS/DHCP server, but one thing at a time (remember Change Management!).