[Buildroot] buildroot imagw upgrade

[daggs]

Greetings Peter,

> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 6:35 PM
> From: "Peter Korsgaard" <peter at korsgaard.com>
> To: daggs <daggs at gmx.com>
> Cc: buildroot at buildroot.org
> Subject: Re: buildroot imagw upgrade
>
> >>>>> "daggs" == daggs  <daggs at gmx.com> writes:
> 
>  > Greetings,
>  > I'm thinking of creating an buildroot based image for a multi-use server.
>  > the main issue that bugs me is the possibility of upgrade.
>  > reinstalling the system takes time and I'd rather do upgrades instead.
> 
>  > does anyone has an idea on how to address such issue?
> 
> Ehh, I'm not sure I understand the question. To upgrade you presumably
> just build a new image with Buildroot and write that to the server, just
> like you would do for any embedded system?
> 

I have a dtv server running image based on buildroot, it gets stuck every day requiring me to reboot it.
I want to upgrade the image but I have data and config I want to keep.
my first idea was to preform and upgrade, that is why I'm asking.

Dagg.