reinstall checklist?

[grimm26]

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?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

User SSH keys will be part of the config.xml if you added them through the UI.

[grimm26]

User 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 :).