Determining whether my VPS needs any upgrades (generally)

[Jonathan5]

@pfaffman

If you don’t mind a bunch of downtime and the possibility that it’ll wreck you system, you can try to do multiple dist-upgrades. If you do that, you should make a snapshot (which also incurs downtime) so that you can restore to it.

I didn’t think I could follow the rsync topic, as there were too many questions and variations suggested. So I did this instead, and it all seems to work!