[SOLVED] Backup and restore configuration across versions

[Miss Sissy Princess]

If on a Windows PC, write your own image of your configuration using freeware usbimager.exe. Just need a card reader to put the working SD card in. It doesn't shrink anything, basically a 1:1 clone. Took about 15 minutes to create an image of a 32GB SD card of a running MoOde Pi. Wrote that image to another card (same size), powered up a PI, voila, system back up and running, no config to do. I also wrote the image to another SD card, powered off the original Pi, powered up the clone, changed the IP, name and I had a 2nd PI up and running in no time.
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but across versions this cloning scenario works for me. Just have to remember to make a new clone after an upgrade.

If you clone a moOde version 7.6.1 MicroSD card and put it into another Raspberry Pi, it's still version 7.6.1.  I don't see how making a bit-for-bit replica of the MicroSD card would help to migrate the configuration across versions from, say, from moOde version 7.6.1 into moOde version 8.0.  Did I misunderstand what you were proposing?