Yep, you might also just use a volume for the data, and then next time you just 
have to umount from the old instance and
remount on the new one.

On 01/03 10:20, Sammy Tarling wrote:
> Depending on how much you have to copy, using a volume might be a little
> quicker? (i.e., mount it on the old instance, copy the data to it, remount
> it on the new instance, copy the data off)
> 
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Sammy
> 
> 
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2023, 10:10 Roy Smith, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > My VPS host
> > <https://horizon.wikimedia.org/project/instances/43d3e9f2-b7d5-4a51-92b6-6a636839d66f/>
> >  is
> > running debian buster.  What's the best way to migrate to a newer image?
> > I've already spun up a bullseye instance
> > <https://horizon.wikimedia.org/project/instances/ffae23a6-47bf-4c76-bfd2-d6b7d2cf495b/>.
> > Is there some easy way to move all my data to the new machine, or should I
> > just copy it over manually with scp or something like that?
> >
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