Joe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 7 Mar 2026 09:35:41 +0000 > Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Am I likely to hit any big snags? Obviously I will back things up > > carefully (we have daily incremental backups of /home and /etc > > anyway). Do I need to do much more than make an image of /home and > > then install Debian 13 and then copy /home onto the new install? > > > > One specific point: /home contains a lot of the users' configuration > data, some of which may not be compatible with different versions of > the applications. I would not just drop the old dotfiles into the new > /home without testing before and after each application for functioning > correctly, or if the files are short text files, examining them. In some > cases, as you say the installation is old, you may want to configure > from scratch anyway. > > Obviously the data should be safe enough to transfer. > > Ideally, either broken/incompatible data or configuration files should > not cause an application any difficulty, they should just be reported, > but some applications don't handle invalid input files gracefully. > Yes, I guess the best thing to do would be to copy each application's data across separately and deal with any issues as one does it.
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