On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 18:19:05 +0000 (UTC), Leroy Tennison via Openvpn-users <openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>This doesn't directly answer your question but we have done what you are about >to do and didn't have any problems. In our situation OpenVPN ran on a VM so we >did a backup of the image beforehand. I cannot do this since I cannot attach a new disk to the system from over here to transfer the backup to. >Ubuntu is pretty good about not replacing configuration files with >customizations >without prompting first. >A tar of /etc/openvpn would be a good idea. I am not really concerned with the configuration files there, I have them pretty much handled. But there are other files in other places that worry me more... What I do not know is if the upgraded system would be *without* OpenVPN if it was not installed via the Ubuntu repositories since it seems like the upgrade removes the special repos from apt. Will that also remove openvpn itself from the system? That is a no-no! Or will it use the standard Ubuntu repo version? That is basically OK provided the system will run even though the current installation is not adhering to the new paradigm where there are server and client dirs in /etc/openvpn and xxx.conf files in each of these will start the corresponding service. This is OK when I do a new install but not so when I deal with upgrading an old system that was configured the "old" way. >If you're concerned about uninterrupted operation I don't know that there's >much >you can do. Might be time to set up a backup system and plan a time/pay the >price for a couple of two-minute outages at an opportune time. > This is not a concern. I can do it from over here during off-times in the USA (middle of the night). I also have a secondary OpenVPN server running on a RaspberryPi device on the LAN, which I use if I have to do work on the main vpn server. I plan on using that during the upgrade. -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
