New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Proxmox Upgrade from 7 to 8 - any gotches? in-place or nuke and restore?
raindog308
Administrator, Veteran
in General
My home proxmox is running 7.0.
I've backed up all the VMs and /etc. Anything else I should backup?
First, I will upgrade to 7.4. Then upgrade to 8.
For the 7.4 -> 8, should I do an in-place or nuke and restore the VMs? I'm thinking to try an in-place and see how it goes. Any gotchas going from 7 to 8?
Comments
Not any major system overhauls so you should be fine going with an in place upgrade, but it's a good idear to have a backup Incase stuff goes sideways
I've updated both of my home servers from an old installation (I think 7.1) and everything went flawlessly. You should have backups, but nuking and restoring I don't feel you need to.
Upgrade in place always worked 95% of the time.
Never did a VM broke, rather some wired new setting that could cause problems but is mostly mentioned when upgrading.
Havent done any to 8 yet, but I've taken some acquired customers from 5 to 7 without any hitches, 3 servers in a row, in production. Usually proxmox is stellar in upgrading, just follow their docs to a T and you'll be fine.
Piece of cake. Thanks, all!
Everything ok