Upgrade vs new install
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I am wondering about the best option here.
I have two firewalls setup with HA running 2.1.5
Because of the number of changes to pfSense lately, ie FreeBSD 10 and moving to StrongSwan I am wondering if it is better to do a clean installation of the system or do an in-place upgrade.I do know one thing. I did a clean install on my spare firewall and then tried to restore the cofig from the production firewalls and the system would not boot after. So I would be looking at entering all the settings manually.
Thanks, Gord.
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Upgrade are generally fine, but depending on how old the hardware is (especially the disk), it may be a good time to reinstall.
Reinstall+restore should work identically to an upgrade except for a few bits that may be left over during an upgrade. Usually if it doesn't appear to work properly it's due to some difference in the image or configuration's console settings, interfaces, etc.
Looks like you submitted the same question via the support portal this morning and someone responded similarly. Probably best to continue there if you'd like to pursue figuring out why the reinstall didn't work as expected.
