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. 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. -dsr-
