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anaelorlinski / OpenWrt-NanoPi-R2S-R4S-Builds

OpenWRT Builds for NanoPi R2S & R4S from official Openwrt source code with minimal set of patches
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Official upgrade method #15

Closed warning939 closed 2 years ago

warning939 commented 2 years ago

Hi Anaelorlinski,

Thank you for your project and merry Christmas! :) A quick question. I have been using the "AO Build@2021.10.11 / LuCI openwrt-21.02 branch git-21.279.78618-2e0ff79" version for a while. What is the official method to upgrade to the latest version with keeping the existing configuration?

Thank you,

Peter

anaelorlinski commented 2 years ago

I don't know if there is an official way to update the snapshot like builds. Maybe check sysupgrade on openwrt documentation ? If you use squashfs, then the safest way is to flash the new build on a new sd card, and copy over the contents of overlay partition from the old card to the new one. I personally use a totally different approach based on GitOps model and maintain a set of external scripts that are run over ssh on a fresh OpenWrt install. After each new build I flash the fresh release to a new sd card and apply my configuration pipeline after boot. Of course I can revert the sd card to the previous one if something is wrong, that's the huge plus of this device.