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    How to run upgrade faster ?

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      martintamare
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      Hello,

      Is there a way to anticipate upgrade so as to pre-download all needed package before upgrade ?

      On the customer, we have a very slow internet connection and upgrade is taking forever.

      pkg fetch -d -y ?

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        martintamare
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        pkg fetch -u -d -y
        

        seem to do what I want :)

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          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          If you run ZFS in Plus it upgrades the new boot environment before rebooting so reduces downtime significantly.

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            hescominsoon @stephenw10
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              hescominsoon @martintamare
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              @martintamare said in How to run upgrade faster ?:

              Hello,

              Is there a way to anticipate upgrade so as to pre-download all needed package before upgrade ?

              On the customer, we have a very slow internet connection and upgrade is taking forever.

              pkg fetch -d -y ?

              what i would do is remote into a mahchine behind the irewlal and go download the update package...then once you are ready yoou could use the web gui to upload the update when youa re ready to upgraede.,,iirc...

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                martintamare
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                Our solution at this point :

                Automatically :

                • Remove unwanted boot environnements
                • Update the train to the stable version
                • Check upgrade availability (pfSense-upgrade -d -c)
                • Prefetch all packages (pkg fetch -u -d -y)

                So we want finally launch the upgrade (pfSense-upgrade -4 -d -y) it's faster !

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