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  • Don’t mix your public and private DNS records. Use your public records for public things, and a local DNS forwarder for your local network.

    A records only reference IPs and not ports.

    SRV can be used to specify where to find ports, but the client needs to support those lookups to properly use it. You can use a reverse proxy or HTTP redirects to point things to different ports.





  • It’s not that there’s anything inherently wrong with this, but it’s not the most in line with your goals. If you’re worried about data loss, you could have made a volume that spans both drives like RAID1/Z1, or you could have setup some clever data spanning with BTRFS or likewise. Then you’d be killing two birds with one stone for the Timeshift portion.

    If you want safe backups, you need a separate backup drive at a bare minimum.







  • If you have a second clean drive to work with, you can clone it there and just change your boot target in your BIOS. This is the simplest way.

    If you’re simply concerned about config incompatibilities and finding what will break (not hardware), you could clone down to a VM image and boot that then run the upgrade, and boot it again.

    If you’re concerned about hardware issues, you could clone down to a liveUSB compatible image (skipping heavy media files) and boot that from an external device and see how it runs.

    It’s a bit of an early release to test with your daily driver, so it’s going to be a nightmare. Just a heads up.