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cryptomanman

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Upgrading from 18.1 to 18.7 and moving to new computer
« on: December 22, 2018, 07:51:09 am »
Is it possible to install 18.7 on a new machine while also bringing my settings from 18.1 from my old machine? I'd really like to avoid taking dozens for screenshots and hand typing everything in or breaking anything!  :o

Background, old install on a ancient 32bit Asus laptop. New install will be on a HP thin client. Hardware is updated and ready to go. But, I'm a relative noob to opnsense and my old install was setup a little at a time with lots of googling. I'm trying to avoid repeating all that googling!
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Re: Upgrading from 18.1 to 18.7 and moving to new computer
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2018, 11:06:44 am »
Yes, this is easy ;-)

System, configuration, backups. Download while connected to the old firewall web interface, then restore on the new one.

Bart...
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Re: Upgrading from 18.1 to 18.7 and moving to new computer
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2018, 07:01:06 pm »
I was hoping it was that easy! Just worried that with new features / layout and totally different  hardware, that it wouldn't work.

I'll give it a try!
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Re: Upgrading from 18.1 to 18.7 and moving to new computer
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2019, 10:37:43 am »
Just a quick update in case anyone else has the same question. It worked well. Just a small hiccough. Just had to reinstall the plugins, like suricata, that don't come pre-installed. Once I did that, they found my previous configuration and started right up.

Thanks again for  a great project!
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