# Is it safe to upgrade Ubuntu from 14.04 to 16.04.1 via do-release-upgrade, and how-to

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-safe-to-upgrade-ubuntu-from-14-04-to-16-04-1-via-do-release-upgrade-and-how-to/52274
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [31 באוקטובר,‏ 2016,‏ 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-safe-to-upgrade-ubuntu-from-14-04-to-16-04-1-via-do-release-upgrade-and-how-to/52274 "2016-10-31T23:00:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 9

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [11 בנובמבר,‏ 2016,‏ 3:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-safe-to-upgrade-ubuntu-from-14-04-to-16-04-1-via-do-release-upgrade-and-how-to/52274/9 "2016-11-11T03:46:27Z")

</div>

- The DigitalOcean snapshot took ~20 minutes for a 40GB instance.
- don’t forget running `./launcher cleanup` before turning off your droplet and making a snapshot - it may a big difference in the snapshot size, sometimes up to 10GB
- The `do-release-upgrade` took about 20 minutes for me (upgrading from 14.06 LTS to 16.06 LTS)

A few notes from the upgrade process I run through:

* * *

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/f/4fd16e114dc34ec5a4c287bb63e14ede8e158d76.png)

Answered NO.

* * *

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/4/94c38129606f04ec710355c0a56090c9443e051e.png)

Answered YES.

* * *

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/5/c5ae875076127da614038817c38d9783c1b75c56.png)

* * *

At the end:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/3/83efaeed9d6e46022236eaaef97fd9eff1baad1f.png)

* * *

After restarting:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/9/99a20a0a0277039bcff376ee011db0995dbb4b12.png)

> [@mr8](#):
>
> I believe I had to manually start docker service docker start once the upgrade was done, but didn’t have any issues otherwise.

Didn’t need this in my case.

* * *

Something I did not pay too much attention to, but should have done so when upgrading through a SSH connection - only googled about it later:

> <https://askubuntu.com/questions/8884/whats-the-risk-of-upgrading-over-ssh/100707#100707>

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-safe-to-upgrade-ubuntu-from-14-04-to-16-04-1-via-do-release-upgrade-and-how-to/52274)._