[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] [fateserver] Cleanup and security strengthening

[James Almer]

On 8/23/2021 9:51 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
> James Almer (12021-08-23):
>> Assuming it's from 20.04.x to 20.04.2, it should be fine. But shouldn't this
> 
> It is a bit older than that:
> 
> Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-151-generic x86_64)
> 
> That makes it all the more necessary but also all the more risky.
> 
>> kind of thing be done by the system admin? Is there one?
> 
> I am not sure, I am prone to understand there is not really one.
> 
> I hope at least there is a backup of the data.
> 
> Regards,

An upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 is riskier than a simple point release 
upgrade, so yes, a backup is the bare minimum we should have before we 
attempt something like it.