To do 25.07 or not?! That is the question!
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@stephenw10 yes, 24.11 to 25.07.1...jeez I'm losing my marble.
I had months of usage measurements and now they're gone:
Before the upgrade, I removed the status_traffic_totals package in accordance with the best practices, and after I added it back. I did not see nor choose any other options. Other packages, like cron, email reports and pfBlocker retained all their configurations and data.
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Hmm, I'm not sure Traffic Totals does back it up. That would be a lot of data in the config. The RRD data is not saved by default.
Do you have a BE you can roll back to to get the data?
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@stephenw10, I'm not sure either. I didn't use or restore a backup. I did a normal in-place ZFS upgrade.
If I had not removed the package, the data should have stayed in the BE and not been a factor in terms of being 'a lot of data in the config'?
But, logically then, It seems removing the package deleted the data with it, unlike other packages normal expected behaior. (It does occur to me that the config may have been saved; right away in v25 it retained the selection of the two WANs for display. I did not have to restore that after the upgrade. So maybe it did delete just the data and not the config?)
It may not be worth the effort to migrate the data back from v24 to v25, but it is useful for me and the record to know that the package manager/the package/pfSense apparently does not save this particular package's data like the other packages or as implied in the upgrade instructions. Unless this is actually a bug and should not have happened. I'd be interested in knowing which is true.
So, is it reasonable to leave the status_traffic_totals package in place during the next upgrade and only remove the other packages, given I want to retain the data?
Should this discrepancy in the behavior of this package compared with the others and the upgrade instructions be documented somewhere or, if it's a bug, fix it?
