Questions before major upgrades

[BlazeStar]

Hello,

I've been using FreeNAS-9.10-STABLE for a long time now, and I would like to upgrade to latest.

I was thinking about simply selecting the FreeNAS-11.3-STABLE train and upgrade with the GUI.

Is that the correct way?

A few questions:

• I have two encrypted pools, is that an issue?
• I have two FreeNAS boxes, one is used for snapshot replication only. Does it matter which one I upgrade first?
  • I was thinking about using the backup box (the FreeNAS installation that receives the snapshot replication) to test the upgrade. Will it still be able to receive snapshot replication once it is upgraded to 9.10, from a 11.3 system?
• On one box, I have a lot of active plugins, and a few jails. What happens with them?
• Anything else I should consider?

Thanks!

 

[Alecmascot]

Be very careful with encrypted pools !!!
Do a search for "upgrade from 9.10" and review the results.
As I recall most people upgraded in stages, to 11.0 first.

 

[BlazeStar]

Be very careful with encrypted pools !!!
Do a search for "upgrade from 9.10" and review the results.
As I recall most people upgraded in stages, to 11.0 first.

Alright I will, thanks!
I read this:

READ THIS before you upgrade to 11.3, if you have GELI-encrypted pools!

This is in the Known Impacts section of the Release Notes at https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-3-release/. The system no longer allows moving the system dataset to an encrypted pool containing a passphrase. Since Directory Services and some SMB state information is stored in the...

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I made sure my system dataset is not on an encrypted pool!

Anyone can respond to these concerns?

• I have two FreeNAS boxes, one is used for snapshot replication only. Does it matter which one I upgrade first?
  • I was thinking about using the backup box (the FreeNAS installation that receives the snapshot replication) to test the upgrade. Will it still be able to receive snapshot replication once it is upgraded to 9.10, from a 11.3 system?
• On one box, I have a lot of active plugins, and a few jails. What happens with them?
• Anything else I should consider?

 

[BlazeStar]

Forget everything else but I'd really like to know what happens to my plugins, and jails, after I do the upgrade.

Will they still work?

I'm tying to look around google and the documentation but I have not found anything about that yet!

 

[Alecmascot]

Upgrade to no higher than 11.2-U3 then you will still have your Warden jails and legacy gui and will be able to convert them to Iocage jails with the built-in conversion script.
Then go to 11.3-U4.1.

SOLVED - Warden jail still works in 11.2?

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[joeschmuck]

I've been using FreeNAS-9.10-STABLE for a long time now, and I would like to upgrade to latest.

The biggest question is... Why? You should fight the urge and if it works, leave it alone. But I never take my own advice on this one, I just upgraded to 11.3-U4.1 a few weeks ago when 11.1-U7 was working just fine. I didn't like the new UI when it first came out but it's gotten much better so I'm getting use to it.

If you can, ensure your data is backed up on someplace safe before moving forward. Encrypted pools can take a hit if not done properly and when you read the stories on the forums, it happens too often.

 

[BlazeStar]

Upgrade to no higher than 11.2-U3 then you will still have your Warden jails and legacy gui and will be able to convert them to Iocage jails with the built-in conversion script.
Then go to 11.3-U4.1.

SOLVED - Warden jail still works in 11.2?

Hi I have been study and prepare myself to upgrade from 11-release to 11.2. One big changes is the warden to IOCage jail change in 11.2. I thought once I upgrade to 11.2, my old warden jail and plugins will stop working. But looks like I am wrong? I only have one jail for plex and plex...

www.ixsystems.com

11.1 migrate jails to iocage

I upgraded from FreeNAS 9.10 to 11.1-stable and I’m having trouble with the iocage migration. Maybe I should have just went to 11.2-stable and if that will fix this issue let me know. This is what we are working with. After the upgrade I updated the ZFS pool to add the features per the prompts...

www.ixsystems.com

Warden to iocage migration script, some quick tips for others!

EDIT: It's possible the script works a lot better now, I haven't tested it, but see this bug track for it. https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/27236#change-306289 You might not need all the information below. Here's some tips for novices which will help if you have issues migrating your...

www.ixsystems.com

GREAT adivice.

I installed 11.2 and then 11.3

11.2 let me access the legacy UI and manage my jails.

11.3 did NOT!

But I could go back to 11.2 by switching the boot environment.

There I could extract all my stuff and then create new iocages.

I decided to install clean plugins and iocages, then just pull the database and settings so I didn't use any jail to iocage script or update feature.

Now I'm running 11.3 and it's doing GREAT!

Wow... there's been a LOT of improvement... I'm quite happy I made the jump!

I'll be waiting a few days/week before I update the feature flags.

Thanks all for your comments.