Patrick_3000
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I have had SCALE installed for about a year and, before that, CORE (and before that Freenas). During this time, I have always updated to the latest production version as soon as it becomes available.
However, recently I have virtualized my firewall, OPNsense, and now run it as a VM on SCALE. I also have some other important VMs running on SCALE, and consequently, I do not like to reboot SCALE, which is necessary when updating, because rebooting takes down Internet in my house and also takes down some other important VMs, and also, rebooting takes several minutes because all the VMs need to shut down.
So, I would like to stop updating every time a new version of SCALE comes out and instead only update once or twice a year, which means I won't always have the latest version of SCALE installed. (I'm currently on 23.10.0, having just updated to Cobia, and there is already another update available).
Does anyone know best practices on this? In particular, is it OK to only update SCALE only once or twice a year, even though new versions become available more frequently, or does anyone foresee potential problems with this? (I can't think of any potential problems but want to make sure i'm not missing something.)
However, recently I have virtualized my firewall, OPNsense, and now run it as a VM on SCALE. I also have some other important VMs running on SCALE, and consequently, I do not like to reboot SCALE, which is necessary when updating, because rebooting takes down Internet in my house and also takes down some other important VMs, and also, rebooting takes several minutes because all the VMs need to shut down.
So, I would like to stop updating every time a new version of SCALE comes out and instead only update once or twice a year, which means I won't always have the latest version of SCALE installed. (I'm currently on 23.10.0, having just updated to Cobia, and there is already another update available).
Does anyone know best practices on this? In particular, is it OK to only update SCALE only once or twice a year, even though new versions become available more frequently, or does anyone foresee potential problems with this? (I can't think of any potential problems but want to make sure i'm not missing something.)