Thanks for the input everyone, you confirmed my thoughts. I'll build a 2.x system on replacment hardware, manually copy the config (unless I can restore from the original ?) and swop them over
Nick Upson, Telensa Ltd, Senior Operations Network Engineer direct +44 (0) 1799 533252, support hotline +44 (0) 1799 399200 On 7 October 2014 20:29, Chris Buechler <c...@pfsense.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Nenhum_de_Nos <math...@eternamente.info> > wrote: > > > > I have 2.0.3 amd64, is it safe to upgrade to 2.1.5 ? > > > > In the case above, should him first upgrade to 2.0.x, then to a newer > version ? > > > > You're better off going straight from 1.x to 2.1.5 than stopping at > any point in between if you're going to upgrade in place. > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Jim Thompson <j...@netgate.com> wrote: > > > > We've seen a lot of instances where the hw has run for years, but has > developed silent, undiagnosed issues (bad blocks, mostly). > > > > The upgrade doesn't "cause" a failure, but it gets blamed. > > > > Yeah that's old enough it's likely to run into that type of "upgrade > issue", where a reboot would have done the same. > > Given the age of the hardware, it'd be prudent to restore the 1.2.3 > config to a new system with 2.1.5, and swap the hardware to upgrade. > Don't power off the old system until you're confident in the new, just > unplug its NICs, which should make it as safe as possible to switch > back. > > > > While it might work, I'm absolutely certain we've never tested upgrading > from 1.2.3 to 2.1.5. > > > > It's definitely not well tested. I've done at least a handful of 1.2.3 > to 2.1x upgrades, though none to 2.1.5 it should be the same in that > regard. If it's not a complex system, which anything still running 1.x > at this point almost certainly isn't, it should work. For risk > reduction, I probably wouldn't upgrade anything 5+ years old in place, > for hardware reliability reasons. > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > List@lists.pfsense.org > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >
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