Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > On Tuesday 28 July 2015 15:38:41 Dennis Wicks wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > I am considering upgrading from Jessie 8.1 to Stretch > > (testing) to see if some problems disappear. > > > > Is there any procedure for backing out the upgrade just in > > case things "don't work out"? > > 1. Take a really good back-up and restore from it. > > 2. Install Stretch as a dual boot with Jessie.
I've always preferred the latter. You can make a real comparison between the two versions, and it gives you the most time to migrate any incompatible changes in your data. (Spreadsheets caught me out on the jessie upgrade.) In the past I have shared /home, and dealt with dotfiles using links like .config/mc/mc.ext → ext-<debian-codename> → a-version-of-the-file but that's got complicated with browsers, so now I'm leaving /home under /, and sharing only a non-dotfiles-partition. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150728163840.GA7174@alum
