We lost a few day’s worth of content since the last backup while I re-built the server. Maybe a “planned” upgrade will avoid that next time. After some glitch rendered Radeon functionality compromised, I decided there were too many “gotchas” involved with upgrading the OS along with some touchy applications, so I rebuilt it from scratch – but not before forgetting to grab a Word[press snapshot 1st. Last week’s posts will start popping up again as I manually recover it. We’re now on Bullseye all around – the latest Debian Linux, version 11.
Ironically, one of the backup apps I use for most data, Unison, long ago presented an irreconcilable (to me) conflict between Bullseye and the earlier Debian Buster. The way to backport newer apps to the old Buster server is not straightforward. I elected to downgrade Unison on the new Bullseye workstation by holding the old version there for compatibility purposes. Software interoperability issues can be fun (not!) to manage.
WordPress migrated much better, but still left a few holes to patch. Initial observation this time around suggested certain images got their URLs borked by a value of “-1.” Had to re-insert a passel of carriage returns again, as well. Sometimes I think they do this stuff on purpose, just to piss people off or push them to buy paid support. Still, with close-matching versions, noticeably fewer issues than last time.