Backup auto restored after upgrade to 25.7.1_1 this morning.

Started by Adeian, August 09, 2025, 02:28:20 AM

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August 09, 2025, 02:28:20 AM Last Edit: August 14, 2025, 07:33:26 AM by Adeian Reason: mis-spelling
Hello everyone,

I'm pretty new to OPNsense so wanted to run this by you all to see if this is going to be a normal thing.

I installed and was running the current version (at the time), had everything working great and had installed a few plugins a a couple themes. I installed 25.7 when it was released and decided to actually get everything working the way I wanted.  Set up a couple VLANs, added a certificate and made some tweaks to get better through put. 

This morning I noticed that there was an update so I installed that.  When it rebooted there were no errors, I still had internet DNS and DHCP was working but I noticed that the changes I had made to the dashboard were gone. Then I noticed all the changes I had made with certs, some plugins, VLANs and new interfaces were all gone.

Looking through the logs the last entries right after the reboot was to restore the first backup I ever made right after I originally installed OPNsense.  So it's back to the drawing board getting everything working again.  The backup I did right before the update restore or has all the old information in it.

This isn't a normal thing is it?  Luckily it's a small home network and not my nation wide CDN network at work.  :)

PD

No this isn't the norm.  I have used OPNsense for many years without major issues.  There is something weird with the upgrade this time around.  Hopefully they can figure out what went wrong and caused a lot of failed upgrades this time around.  I don't have anything special on my install.  For the most part very vanilla with only dhcp reservations.  I had to install 25.7 fresh and upgrade to 25.7.1 and then restore my config.  I was lucky my system reverted back to allow me to make a backup which you should do before any upgrade.

May you have accidentally run from the installer (DVD or such) in live mode and have been loading the last config from local disk?
This would give you a system as you had it setup, but everything you change may be lost after the next reboot.

Doing regular local backups of the current configuration before and after doing major changes is highly recommended. Out of System / Configuration / Backup and there "Download configuration".