<![CDATA[Scheduled Upgrade?]]>Is there a way to schedule an upgrade ?

Just wondering if I can preload the installation files... and then schedule the upgrade?

Thank you,
-dt

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/178327/scheduled-upgradeRSS for NodeWed, 20 May 2026 01:30:35 GMTSun, 26 Feb 2023 23:35:03 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Scheduled Upgrade? on Wed, 01 Mar 2023 22:11:01 GMT]]>Agree...

What I am trying to do is not waste my time waiting for a download over a small bandwidth connection.

I would like to preload / download the upgrade package... which could take some time...

Once downloaded, then I can come back and upgrade...

Similar to TrueNAS in how they allow you to download the upgrade... then later come back at a convenient time to actually do the upgrade...

Can a preload be done ?

Thanks.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1091538https://forum.netgate.com/post/1091538Wed, 01 Mar 2023 22:11:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Scheduled Upgrade? on Wed, 01 Mar 2023 11:47:41 GMT]]>@secopsdirector I wouldn't want that at all, especially if it's a huge update like 22.05->23.01 is. But if you want to run something like that, you can just evoke a pfSense-upgrade -y command via cron at a time to your liking.

Personally I'd rather prefer a good monitoring that checks, if there are updates/upgrades available and gets me a dashboard of "ToDo" so we can run the updates in communicated update-windows that are cleared with customers and not at 3am in the morning, failing and leaving a box stranded without internet and having a supporter drive there to revive it. :)

Cheers

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1091372https://forum.netgate.com/post/1091372Wed, 01 Mar 2023 11:47:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Scheduled Upgrade? on Mon, 27 Feb 2023 01:35:08 GMT]]>a cron job (as said before)
a script
use putty to log in console and set up option (13)
fast done and nothing fancy!

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1090734https://forum.netgate.com/post/1090734Mon, 27 Feb 2023 01:35:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Scheduled Upgrade? on Mon, 27 Feb 2023 01:18:15 GMT]]>@dtpantera There is a console command, perhaps you can run it with the cron package?

I'm assuming the goal is to do it at 3am or some down time. I would want to see it, myself...if something did go wrong, it could get fixed then and not wait until 8am.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1090725https://forum.netgate.com/post/1090725Mon, 27 Feb 2023 01:18:15 GMT