Updated about 7 years ago by Jamila Khan

• Table of contents
• Debian 8 to 9
  • Update sources list
  • Upgrade the system
    • Check for Necessary Disk Space
    • Update the sources
    • Minimal Upgrade
    • Full Upgrade
  • Common problems
    • iBackup
    • backupninja

Debian 8 to 9¶

Update sources list¶

vim /etc/apt/sources.list

:%s/jessie/stretch/g

Upgrade the system¶

Check for Necessary Disk Space¶

apt-get -o APT::Get::Trivial-Only=true dist-upgrade

Update the sources¶

apt-get update

Minimal Upgrade¶

 apt-get upgrade

Full Upgrade¶

apt-get dist-upgrade

Common problems¶

iBackup¶

PT ticket #35194-19

header.pl and constants.pm are in the ibackup directory but perl on debian does not look in the local directory for @INC.
to fix copy both header.pl and constants.pm into /etc/perl/

backupninja¶

until backupninja gets the fixes pushed out to the debian repo PT ticket #35353
add partitions = no to job 15

https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-upgrade-debian-8-jessie-to-9-stretch/