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Personally, 3 odd hours to upgrade seems like a lot of time tbh. While I'm now running Mint Debian edition (which has rolling upgrades, but some risk of breakage) I keep my data on a separate home partition, that way I can blat root, install a fresh copy of Mint and away I go settings intact (okay, I do take a backup of any changes I've made in /etc and possibly keep a note of what extra packages I've installed). Generally an upgrade like this takes about half an hour from a USB stick (maybe sometimes an hour if my broadband is running slowly). RobSome of my version to version upgrades have taken all day - if you have a lot of large packages then getting them working again the way you like it can be a real pain - after a long download. Backing up /etc is a pointless exercise for an upgrade as it never seems to match the latest release requirements. I am trying to converge all my machines (bar the geode server which wont upgrade past Xubuntu 10.04* for hardware reasons) all to one version of Xubuntu so local caching should help but I dropped Mint simply because it didn’t specifically have an upgrade route built in.
Tom te tom te tom* though I am trying to find out how I can get it to build its own upgrades...
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