To go to 25.1, I think I'm going to do a reinstall and give myself a chance to switch to zfs, too. My question is if there is a checklist for doing a reinstall for things to consider besides just having your saved config.xml
Here's what I can think of (having not done it yet):
- SSL certs. It looks like these may be in the config.xml, but will the system place them in the filesystem where they need to go?
- user SSH keys
- Adguard Home config. And any other "3rd party" tool like this.
Anything else?
User SSH keys will be part of the config.xml if you added them through the UI.
Quote from: Patrick M. Hausen on February 09, 2025, 08:31:26 PMUser SSH keys will be part of the config.xml if you added them through the UI.
Ah, yeah found that out as I went ahead and did my reinstall. I also found it helpful to copy everything that I thought I might need besides the config.xml onto the opnsense usb stick so it would be there after I installed from it :).
Things I found:
- Using adguard as my primary DNS made this more difficult as the system could not install the adguard package (or any other additional packages/plugins) without DNS. I had to add 8.8.8.8 as my DNS until I got my plugin install finished.
- SSL certs (I use acme with letsencrypt) were saved in the config.xml, but were not saved out into the filesystem for something like adguard to use until I forced acme to renew the cert.
- I use bash on the user that I ssh into my opnsense box with, so I could not ssh in until I either changed that user to /bin/sh or installed bash.
Other than that, things went pretty smoothly and I'm now on zfs - something new to learn about :).