I’m a happy middleground. I’ve had two upgrades blow up on me, out of the tens I’ve done.

One was a usrmerge catch-22. It wouldn’t let me install the package during upgrade, but also wouldn’t let me complete the upgrade without the merger finishing. Ended up reverting the install and running the merge prior to upgrade.

The second failure was just… I have no idea what I did wrong. Some commands stopped working. Then I lost SSH. Then it wouldn’t even boot. I had to do a full reinstall and rebuild. Not happy times.

Overall, it was just enough failure that I routinely run two backups prior to upgrades now. hahaha

I had a coworker preparing a customer database that arrived via sneakernet. He typo’d a variable during an rm -f step and ended up wiping the device because it was his working directory and the variable was undefined.