On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 09:03:43 +0000, Chris Green wrote:

... a clean install followed by restoring my /home
will be just about all that's needed.

This is why I like to reserve a second OS partition when initially setting
up filesystem volumes, so I can put an entirely different system there
without disturbing the user files on /home.

But why would you need to, just to do a Debian upgrade?

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On 30/11/2024 13:20, Chris Green wrote:

There's actually a quite large USB stick plugged into it too that has
quite a lot of spare space so if I get to feel a bit paranoid about
the SD card I can copy all the important bits to the USB stick. I can
do this remotely using an ssh connection. I don't fancy trying a major upgrade vi ssh though!

I've done major upgrades to remote Pi's and while it was a bit of a
squeaky bottom time, they all worked and came back up with the new OS.

Ironically it was a minor update to one of my remote Pi's which resulted
it not coming back on the VPN. I had to then drive an hour to sort it
out, and found it had just hung on rebooting, as can occasionally
happen, and was fine after a power cycle.

Using an internet connected switched socket would have fixed that
without having to be there, but I still haven't got around to buying one.

---druck

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druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:

On 30/11/2024 13:20, Chris Green wrote:

There's actually a quite large USB stick plugged into it too that has
quite a lot of spare space so if I get to feel a bit paranoid about
the SD card I can copy all the important bits to the USB stick. I can
do this remotely using an ssh connection. I don't fancy trying a major upgrade vi ssh though!

I've done major upgrades to remote Pi's and while it was a bit of a
squeaky bottom time, they all worked and came back up with the new OS.

I've considered trying a couple of times but since it's all working OK
and I don't really **need** to move it to Bookworm I've not bothered.

Ironically it was a minor update to one of my remote Pi's which resulted
it not coming back on the VPN. I had to then drive an hour to sort it
out, and found it had just hung on rebooting, as can occasionally
happen, and was fine after a power cycle.

My remote Pi is a five hour drive and a ferry crossing to France away!

Using an internet connected switched socket would have fixed that
without having to be there, but I still haven't got around to buying one.

That's a good idea, and it would have other uses for me too, I could
switch the shore power connection remotely which might be handy if the
solar panels aren't keeping the batteries properly charged. The shore
power is disconnected when I'm away to minimise galvanic corrosion.

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Chris Green
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