On Thursday 16 December 2021 06:00:19 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Thursday 16 December 2021 02:49:17 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > > I would seriously suggest upgrading from 9 to at least 10. You might sort > > > out some of the issues but, more > > > importantly, will be moving up to a better supported system > > > > > I'll get there. But upgrading involves me copying a whole pile of > > stuff over to my server, including some really large files that are > > involved in Virtualbox and the one snapshot I have, and then figuring > > out a whole mess of detailed stuff that I need to do to make the > > upgrade happen. Last time it was something like 3 or 4 days before I > > was back to anything remotely resembling normal, and I'm not looking > > forward to the next time (or two). > > You don't do regular backups? > > I recommend them.
Configuring Amanda is on my list, here. > I can also vouch for a couple of facts: > > - every version of Debian stable has been easier to upgrade to than the last. > > - you do about half the amount of work by upgrading from 9 to 10 and then > immediately to 11, and then figuring out what > needs to change, as you would if you tried to figure out changes for each > upgrade. Yeah, but I'm really getting to know a lot about the details of this setup in the process. :-) -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
