On 2019-07-15, Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 23:27:45 +0000 (UTC), Chris Schram 
> declaimed the following:
>
>>Now the question: What have I been doing in my backups since early 2018
>>that finally came back and bit me in the butt? I'd like to do an in situ
>>upgrade to Buster pretty soon, but I won't proceed with that until I
>>learn what I've been doing wrong.
>>
>  Haven't I read recommendations to do a clean install of Buster rather
> than trying to upgrade by changing the repository list...
>
>  It's just the cost of a SD card and a few hours (well, it is if
> installing Raspbian via NOOBS , which I did a few days ago onto two SD
> cards) -- and leaves you with your current SD card for use if something
> doesn't upgrade properly.
>
My main justification for wanting to attempt a "dirty" upgrade is that
over time I have made many poorly documented changes. Yeah, my bad, but
I have not heard of any upgrades of this type that have gone wrong.

BTW, SD card is not in my current vocabulary. My current system started
out when I used Etcher to copy the image directly to a WD Pi Drive.

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