# Determining whether my VPS needs any upgrades (generally)

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**Created:** [February 10, 2025, 7:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determining-whether-my-vps-needs-any-upgrades-generally/351398 "2025-02-10T07:24:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/determining-whether-my-vps-needs-any-upgrades-generally/351398/20 "2025-03-10T13:10:11Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> 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!

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