I installed incus from backports on a debian 12 on my server. I want to upgrade to debian 13 in the future. Are some preparation necessary or should it work out of the box?
If the os upgrade could have many problems, I could could also do a fresh install on a backup server and work with “incus copy” to “migrate” from incus on debian 12 to incus on debian 13.
Is there a prefered way for the upgrade with incus-backport installation an debian 12?
incus client: 6.0.0 (on ubuntu)
incus server: 6.0.4
storage: zfs
I upgraded three personal servers running bookworm with backported Incus to trixie a couple of months ago and things went smoothly.
Be sure to read through the trixie release notes, and if you’re feeling cautious you can wait until the first point release (currently planned for September 6) which will have fixes for issues identified post trixie release.
I just did the upgrade to Debian13 from Debian 12 and the system is using zfs, however instead of using backports, I have been using https://pkgs.zabbly.com/incus/stable which meant updating the .list files under the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
There were no issues related to the upgrade.
In terms of best practices: If you are running this remotely then make sure you are using “screen” or some form of local-console/ILO/DRAC interface.