Very much stuck with updating our TROMsite server. That is all of the websites we have except the TROM.tf ones.

Here's the conundrum:

• We use @YunoHost and a VPS.
• YNH pushed a big update recently from Debian 11 to 12.
• Our VPS is containerized and fails to do this big update through YNH. Thus a fatal failure and unable to reach the server if we update. Nuked. Took many failed attempts, and many days to figure the reason.
• The hosting company cannot help in any way.

Solution (not really):

• Buy a new VPS with Debian 11 (not too easy to find)
• Install an older YNH there.
• Restore our YNH setup from the older one using Borg and do the update to Debian 12 from that server.

BUMMER!
- The Borg YNH app is broken and thus all of our backups are broken. An issue with the folder structure inside the backup archives. Seems easy to fix and they are fixing it, but we need to wait for the update.

AFTER BORG IS FIXED:
- Say we buy a new server with Debian 11. Restore YNH there and do the update there.

TROMjaro FORUM WILL BE DEAD:
- There is a huge issue it seems with Discourse (the TROMjaro forum software we use). It did not receive any updates in months and months. And it fails to restore any backup on any system. Thus if we move to a new server in order to update to YNH Debian 12, we cannot restore the forum.

Very very difficult, if not impossible situation.

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