On Aug 25, 2018, 6:21 AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org>, wrote:
| From: David Mason via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| I am interested in this question too. I currently am running on Debian | 7.7 but I’m not sure I can upgrade to a more current version, which is | frustrating because I want to install Java (to run a Minecraft server) | and (when I tried, so while back) I couldn’t get it to install because I | had such an old version of Debian.
Back in 2017 March 12 you mentioned a problem "Updating Wheezy to Jessie". Did you try Stewart's and Lennart's suggestions?
I put a little time into it, but didn’t get to success. Unfortunately, life intervened. It’s still important, but as you say, as you fall behind, it becomes more difficult to leap-frog into the present.
This is exactly the kind of problem that a debian local users group might address. Recently I suggested that GTALUG could function as a debian LUG. I guess that here we have a test of this idea.
I think it already does. What did you have in mind beyond the mailing list?
Even for the debian upgrade attempt it might be good to have a backup.
Yes, I know. :-)
After enough time, the old hardware becomes obsolete too and it makes total system rebuild more sensible than update. In my most recent example, I jumped about 15 years ahead in hardware.
This system is <5 years old, and at the time was kind-of leading edge. so I’m not worried about that. It’s a 4.4Tb raidz2 at 64% and has performed flawlessly. Unfortunately I don’t really have the time to do any serious digging right now, either. How do others backup their ZFS systems? Getting a 4T external drive doesn’t seem like the best plan, but maybe there isn’t any other choice. ../Dave