You can practice with pg_upgrade as well, backup your PG_DATADIR, restore it on your new machine and run the upgrade. I typically don't bother doing it on a sep

You can practice with pg_upgrade as well, backup your PG_DATADIR, restore it on your new machine and run the upgrade. I typically don't bother doing it on a separate VM myself, I just run the upgrade without the --link flag so it copies all the data files and log segments, test and then open it up.