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--- other:networking:opnsense:upgrade [2024/06/11 17:33] – created rodolico
+++ other:networking:opnsense:upgrade [2024/09/27 16:06] (current) – rodolico
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 ====== Easy Multi-version upgrade of opnSense ======
+===== WARNING =====
+When I tried to do an upgrade from 24.1 to 24.7, the tool attempted to download from the wrong URL (FreeBSD13: instead of FreeBSD14:) and bricked my router. I ended up reinstalling. However, that is the only time the tool has caused problems for me.
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 I ran into a problem where the master node my fairly complex opnSense High Availability router set up ended up with some problems after
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 I assumed I would need to do a complete re-install, but I found the excellent set of scripts, opnsense-update (https://github.com/opnsense/update)
-containing just the tool I needed, opnsense-bootstrap. With this, I was able to do an upgrade from 22.1 to 24.1 in one step, and doing the equivilent
+containing just the tool I needed, opnsense-bootstrap. With this, I was able to do an upgrade from 22.1 to 24.1 in one step, and doing the equivalent
 of a clean install. The result exceeded expectations.
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 ===== Result =====
-The script **removed** the existing installation, then downloaded and installed 23.7. It appears to me that this was the equivilent of doing a fresh install, then importing the configuration, the difference being:
+The script **removed** the existing installation, then downloaded and installed 23.7. It appears to me that this was the equivalent of doing a fresh install, then importing the configuration, the difference being:
   * I have some custom scripts that run on the router, and they ran well
   * I had to do an update on a couple of plugins before they would start
   * Total time for the entire process was probably less than doing a fresh install as I did not have to recreate my customization