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Broken 7.008: Is It Safe To Go Back Into The Water?

I've advised all my customers to NOT install the 7.008 update given the disastrous repercussions it has wreaked over the last few days - ie. wiping your installs. I terminated our own ASG220 with it.

So I'm stuck ... is there a replacement 7.008 that doesn't destroy your ASG? Or a rollup of 7.008 and 7.009 that I can use in preference? I cannot/don't want to take the risk.

My only alternative is to reflash units but that is a nightmare in itself ...

Any help/ideas greatly appreciated.

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0 fr76 over 18 years ago in reply to James Bourne

Hi

Just wondered if there was any new info on this. We suffered the 7.008 config wipe and are hesitent to apply any further up2dates at this time. We still run 7.007 but would like to be able to update to the latest version in confidence.

7.010 seems to address a number of issues that have been causing us problems.

Has anyone had any issues upgrading to 7.010?

Thanks in Advance
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0 James Bourne over 18 years ago in reply to fr76

7.009 and 7.010 appear to be stable. However, you will need to apply the dreaded (!) 7.008. Astaro updates are not incremental.
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0 fr76 over 18 years ago in reply to James Bourne

Hi,

Thanks for that. Having to apply 7.008 does change my viewpoint on applying the up2dates.

Last time we had to completely rebuild our ASG 320.

Thanks,
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0 James Bourne over 18 years ago in reply to fr76

The only advice I have received is apply 7.008 and pray (!) or reflash with 7.009. Both a pretty weak solutions.
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0 tank over 18 years ago in reply to James Bourne

Ok so if I select update on the 7.010 patch (skipping the 7.008) it will still apply the 7.008 first?

If this is the case I am very concerned about doing this on our production Firewalls which are ASG220. If Astaros line is try it and pray I am very dissappointed with them and this makes their product not enterprise friendly at all.
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0 James Bourne over 18 years ago in reply to tank

Yes. Astaro updates are not rollups (ie. 7.010 doesn't include 7.008 and 7.009).
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0 BrucekConvergent over 18 years ago in reply to James Bourne

I would recommend that you up2date one version number at a time. I would also recommend that you reboot before and after each update, particularly on a 220 with limited resources. It would be a good idea to SSH into the box and run top, and watch for everything to settle down, particularly when getting ready to reboot after the 7.008 up2date. I did this and didn't have any problems. 7.008 is rather large, and makes extensive changes, so give it plenty of time to complete the update.

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0 drees over 18 years ago in reply to BrucekConvergent

I wonder if rebooting the machine before applying the 7.008 update would may also help?
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0 BrucekConvergent over 18 years ago in reply to drees

That's what I suggest(ed)... just to be safe.

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0 drees over 18 years ago in reply to BrucekConvergent

Yes, you are right, read your post too quickly. [:)]
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