On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:18 PM, miloska <[email protected]> wrote: >> Are there any "gotchas" if I just change my sources list and do a >> dist-upgrade? This is a complicated desktop which would be a horror to >> rebuild, so I really would rather know any problems in advance >> > > Do proper, full backup (dd is my personal favorite, but I guess there > are more sophisticated tools nowdays), do the upgrade and test if > anything went wrong? > > If it is 'complicated' unlikely that anyone can answer your question > (although you may get some misleading 'everything went fine' emails) , > so full backup is a must anyway. > > Good luck! > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
I have never experienced a seamless upgrade of any Ubuntu distribution, so I second the recommendation to do a full backup before attempting the upgrade. Ubuntu does some fairly vast changes between revisions, and seeing as you're skipping a whole major release in the upgrade, bad things could happen. As for what to backup with, I use ddrescue as it has a nicer interface for showing copying speed and error rate. -- Regards, Brendan Molloy M: +61 434 069 776 T: @piecritic W: http://bbqsrc.net E: [email protected] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
