Solved Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?
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@pete-s said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
It should be enough to take a backup. It's an xml file that has all the settings.
Yes, I have that. I prefer a disk image also for critical gear running software I am not intimately familiar with.
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I just did an upgrade from 2.4.5 to 2.5.1 few minutes ago, it was flawless. As far as disaster recovery, if it hits the fan, just install from scratch and restore backup from xml file. It really is no different that rebuilding docker containers for example.
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@marcinozga said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
I just did an upgrade from 2.4.5 to 2.5.1 few minutes ago, it was flawless. As far as disaster recovery, if it hits the fan, just install from scratch and restore backup from xml file. It really is no different that rebuilding docker containers for example.
If I was a regular user of pfSense, and familiar with all of the intricacies of its upgrades, I would almost certainly be confident doing that.
But I will not put a customer out of service for hours because I did not take a simple precaution.
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@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
If I was a regular user of pfSense, and familiar with all of the intricacies of its upgrades, I would almost certainly be confident doing that.
But I will not put a customer out of service for hours because I did not take a simple precaution.Did you pick up this customer knowing they were using pfsense or did you deploy pfsense for this customer?
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@dustinb3403 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
did you deploy pfsense for this customer?
No
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@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@dustinb3403 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
did you deploy pfsense for this customer?
No
Is this the customer who's IT person passed away?
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@dashrender Yes.
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@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
Site has a box running pfSense for their main router.
It has an update pending.
I have not actively used pfSense for 7 years. It has generally always worked, but again, that was 7+ years ago.
Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?
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@dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?
Obvious troll is obvious. But I will answer anyway.
- I have done some reading.
- No, I will not ask a bunch of tinkerers about a business essential question.
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@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?
Obvious troll is obvious. But I will answer anyway.
- No, I will not ask a bunch of tinkerers about a business essential question.
LOL ok. The forum is on netgate's website and the platform is open source so you're going to probably get a mix of knowledgeable people as well as "tinkerers" no matter where you ask. You just have to weed out the responses but I'm sure that's a better place to start than this forum...
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@dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?
Obvious troll is obvious. But I will answer anyway.
- No, I will not ask a bunch of tinkerers about a business essential question.
LOL ok. The forum is on netgate's website and the platform is open source so you're going to probably get a mix of knowledgeable people as well as "tinkerers" no matter where you ask. You just have to weed out the responses but I'm sure that's a better place to start than this forum...
That weeding out is exactly why I started here.
I know people here have used it just as I have. Odds were good that some still do, and I was right.
I have great answers without dealing with the masses of unwashed home users and hobbyists.
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This is probably the easiest and safest way to upgrade pfSense.
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@marcinozga said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
This is probably the easiest and safest way to upgrade pfSense.
That is what I used to do, as well as what I plan to do.
On site today. Upgrading after 6pm.
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@pete-s said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
https://archive.org/download/pfSense-CE-2.4.5-RELEASE-p1-amd64/pfSense-CE-2.4.5-RELEASE-p1-amd64.iso
WTF with an archive.org link? Does pfSense not properly supply older versions?
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@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
Does pfSense not properly supply older versions?
That answer is no, apparently.
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@dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?
Obvious troll is obvious. But I will answer anyway.
- No, I will not ask a bunch of tinkerers about a business essential question.
LOL ok. The forum is on netgate's website and the platform is open source so you're going to probably get a mix of knowledgeable people as well as "tinkerers" no matter where you ask. You just have to weed out the responses but I'm sure that's a better place to start than this forum...
I responded to a single thread there.. Yup. useless.
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@marcinozga Any issues with 2.5.1?
Their forum is full of issues. But I have zero trust of the ability of those posting failures.
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@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
rcinozga Any issues with 2.5.1?
Yeez, the forum replies are a little hostile too
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@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@marcinozga Any issues with 2.5.1?
Their forum is full of issues. But I have zero trust of the ability of those posting failures.
We have a number of devices running pfsense but we haven't moved to 2.5 branch yet. Mostly because we have a complex HA setup protecting a cluster of production servers so we are extra careful.
In a typical SMB firewall/router situation there is much less that can go wrong and I expect any issues to be ironed out pretty quickly. Reverting to an earlier version would be simple as well if any issues came up.
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@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?
Obvious troll is obvious. But I will answer anyway.
- No, I will not ask a bunch of tinkerers about a business essential question.
LOL ok. The forum is on netgate's website and the platform is open source so you're going to probably get a mix of knowledgeable people as well as "tinkerers" no matter where you ask. You just have to weed out the responses but I'm sure that's a better place to start than this forum...
I responded to a single thread there.. Yup. useless.
Good lord, LMAO. I'm sorry. I love that you took my advice and went over there only to discover it is indeed absolute stupidity.
Yeah so idk maybe just don't update pfsense for a while? Is there a pressing need to upgrade to the new version? I know its ideal to just have things kept updated and on the latest version but its not worth it when the system updates are such a gamble and there's no real support.
