I can still access the box via SSH but all firewall rules and everything associated with interfaces seems gone and times out when I try to print it out. When I downgrade back to 2.8.28 and restore the backup everything is fine again.
Anyone else seen this and got a fix? I do not really want to setup the box from scratch.
It is a well known fact, that upgrading from 2.8.x to 2.9.x kills all firewall rules, mangle rules etc.
I don’t like that but could live with it. I can re-enter all firewall rules. The interfaces won’t come back no matter what I do though and there is no way around that.
Allways remember to make an export first !!!
A 2.8 export for the most part will not restore in a 2.9 router. You would think there would be a conversion routine done between 2.8 and 2.9.
True that - it is a well known fact… almost all the important setings disappear, and backup won’t help.
You need to generate a script file that will re-enter the config in a terminal application.
/export file=backup
Save the backup.rsc file and edit the commands in Notepad or similar to the correct order, delete all the unnecessary parts, and you have a nice clean & small script to restore the settings…
Is your licence still valid? I know there are limitations to upgrading on invalid one…
