[PROBLEM] Xbian doesn't boot

[havilson]

(26th Jul, 2020 05:02 AM)havilson Wrote:  

(26th Jul, 2020 03:30 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  OMG, you're still running Stretch!

Sorry, but support of Stretch has been stopped at end of last year.

So there's no point in looking for errors any further
The best is to make a backup of your home directory and install a new image

An upgrade from Strectch to Buster doesn't seem to make sense to me because it takes a long time and might cause other errors

I was suspecting that, so I already downloaded all necessary. When, and how, should I changed from Stretch to Buster? Is it manual? How can I get aware about if such an update will occur, is there a way?

Ok, I know it's dumb but I couldn't restore my home backup file (I did it through a ssh xbian-config session and copied to my PC), it's an img.gz file named xbian_backup_home_2020-07-21-1710.btrfs.img.gz
I put it into /xbmc-backup/put_here_to_restore but nothing happened, it's been deleted every time. Shall I decompress it before putting it in there or is there any other procedure to do it?