I have a small production server running Debian Squeeze, and in order to stay more current with apt packages, I thought I should upgrade the distro. The last time I attempted a distro upgrade was from Sarge
to Etch
, and for a first timer it went horribly wrong and I ended up installing Squeeze
a few months later when it went stable.
I was planning to back up /home
, /etc
, MySQL databases, but I was unsure if it's generally safe to use apt to go from Squeeze -> Wheezy -> Jessie
, or if it's better to use the Windows method and go for a full reinstall.