I sacrificed my old installation of whizzy raspberry pi system which was running NCID 1.0. I got lot's of help from Todd on my new setup of jessie and whizzy was not going to stay around. Well things went as expected, the code was upgraded.
But there are steps which must be taken prior to doing the upgrade. Certain files do get overwritten which I expect you want to keep. Namely the files found in "/etc/ncid" ncidd.conf, ncidd.blacklist, ncidd.whitelist and ncidd.alias. The contents of "conf" should be printed. And changes made to the newly overwritten "conf". Many improvements were done betweem 1.0 and 1.3. Inside "conf", so it's best to compare and change. DO NOT OVERWRITE, you will loose the ability to change new stuff and defaults will be used. Which might in your case not to be of your liking. Second before overwritting blacklist, whitelist and alias. Check for differences. Things like regex paramter in "conf" might change and shorten your list. And who knows a new paramter might crop up too inside the files.
If paranora is your norm, consider backing up a full blown system using "clonezilla" (sourceforge). Or in the case of a flash card "HDD Raw Copy Tool" (hddguru.com). I have used clonezilla many times to restore a system needing a true low level format on a hdd.
Good luck on your next upgrade.
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I sacrificed my old installation of whizzy raspberry pi system which was running NCID 1.0. I got lot's of help from Todd on my new setup of jessie and whizzy was not going to stay around. Well things went as expected, the code was upgraded.
But there are steps which must be taken prior to doing the upgrade. Certain files do get overwritten which I expect you want to keep. Namely the files found in "/etc/ncid" ncidd.conf, ncidd.blacklist, ncidd.whitelist and ncidd.alias. The contents of "conf" should be printed. And changes made to the newly overwritten "conf". Many improvements were done betweem 1.0 and 1.3. Inside "conf", so it's best to compare and change. DO NOT OVERWRITE, you will loose the ability to change new stuff and defaults will be used. Which might in your case not to be of your liking. Second before overwritting blacklist, whitelist and alias. Check for differences. Things like regex paramter in "conf" might change and shorten your list. And who knows a new paramter might crop up too inside the files.
If paranora is your norm, consider backing up a full blown system using "clonezilla" (sourceforge). Or in the case of a flash card "HDD Raw Copy Tool" (hddguru.com). I have used clonezilla many times to restore a system needing a true low level format on a hdd.
Good luck on your next upgrade.
Last edit: Ronald Beausoleil 2016-03-11