yesmanCommand line tip of the day
Debian admin here. Even Debian gets regular kernel upgrades that like a reboot afterwards. Security updates are more important than uptime. Also regular testing for clean recovery after a reboot is a must so a power outrage doesn’t bring any new surprises with it. Also test your backup restores regularly.
Novice homelaber here, is this just a case of apt update & upgrade or is there different commands for security and kernel updates? Also what’s your preferred backup/restore software? Thanks!
Nope it’s just apt update & upgrade. Iirc apt tells you when the kernel was updated and needs a reboot as well.
Not if you use Proxmox! One has to be careful.
Only if you installed the package
needrestart
ryannathansfull-upgrade probably a better pick
Is it? Afaik that also removes incompatible packages so if you’ve installed some custom stuff that might not be the best option.
You should be reading the proposed changes before pushing yes. But regardless you can get stuck upgrading if you use only “upgrade” when dependences intentionally incompatibly change by package maintainers
cRazi_manI’m not the person you asked the question of. I’m a fellow novice homelaber.
I use Kopia to backup my data folders and Docker container data. Works really well. The project for this weekend is to set offsite backups to be uploaded to iDrive.
You can get rid of upgrade if you also use full-upgrade
XylightAlso worth checking out restic. It’s more command line oriented and is generally stateless
SamsyOh, never heard about it. A quick research showed me that restic is a very viable solution. Thanks for mentioning it, I added it to my comment.
While researching, I also came across a fancy WebUI, which is mostly what non-CLI users want: backrest
JackbyDevWHAT. Does this do both sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade?
Arthur Besse
Your note is very interesting about the difference between the commands and how autoremove will automatically remove stuff before or after the upgrade is performed. Should it always be done after, or are there instances when running it before is more beneficial? Is there any need to do both like this:
# sudo apt --update --autoremove upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -yI can’t really imagine a benefit to –autoremove except for keeping old packages a bit longer before removing them.
Eg, if you run apt --update --autoremove upgrade -y once a day you’ll keep your prior-to-currently-running-version kernel packages a day longer than if you ran autoremove immediately after each upgrade.
To make things more confusing: the new-ish apt full-upgrade command seems to remove most of what apt autoremove wants to… but not quite everything. 🤷
Incredible that it’s not written everywhere, I always wanted to use something like this without the " update && upgrade" which looks like is not working oftentimes
Is it really not written? I saw apt upgrade --update and knew the standard shortcut would be -u, but that didn’t work so I tried -U, bingo bongo off I went.
It am quite sure in the manual, but if you just look on the interwebz tutorials every command line just writes the full shebang. So you don’t look up the manual and get flabbergasted when you see this post.
btw: if you are able to guess “what the standard shortcut would be”, you are a wizard Harry 🥳