Correct Update/Upgrade process

[eliasisl]

Hi there. We're using a SoftEther VPN Windows Server with around 30 Windows clients, and 15 Android clients (using OpenVPN emulation). All is running fine!

Now we want to upgrade our SoftEther Server and clients to the last version. We've looked for the correct process to do it inside the documentation but we didn't found it.

Is there any document about how to do the upgrade/update correctly?
If not, to avoid issues, what should be the correct order? First Server? First clients?

Thanks in advance

[exciter0]

I haven't seen any documentation regarding upgrades, so this is my approach...
(Since you're not running in a cluster, perhaps it'll also apply to you)


I have a single SE server running on Ubuntu.
I've installed SE server to /usr/local/vpnserver-ver1 and then soft-linked it to /var/local/vpnserver
In my startup scripts I reference /usr/local/vpnserver/vpnserver

When I wish to upgrade SE server, I would untar it to /usr/local/vpnserver-ver2 and do a make
Then I would stop the vpnserver service.
Now remove the soft-link and recreate it to point to /usr/local/vpnserver-ver2

After that, copy the two crucial config files (adminip.txt and vpn_server.config) from /usr/local/vpnserver-ver1 to /usr/local/vpnserver-ver2

Finally, start up the vpnserver service.
If the new version fails, I still have the old version to fall back on.



eliasisl wrote:
> Hi there. We're using a SoftEther VPN Windows Server with around 30 Windows
> clients, and 15 Android clients (using OpenVPN emulation). All is running
> fine!
>
> Now we want to upgrade our SoftEther Server and clients to the last
> version. We've looked for the correct process to do it inside the
> documentation but we didn't found it.
>
> Is there any document about how to do the upgrade/update correctly?
> If not, to avoid issues, what should be the correct order? First Server?
> First clients?
>
> Thanks in advance

[eliasisl]

Thanks "exciter0", but we aren't asking how to do the upgrade, we're asking about the correct order.
Which system should be upgraded first to avoid service interruptions, the server or the clients?

We've a group of clients travelling around the world and we want to avoid as possible, problems.

If we upgrade the server first, could the old clients still connect to the new server?
If we upgrade the clients first, could the new clients still connect to the current server?

Does anybody knows it?

Thanks

[thisjun]

Any order is OK.

[eliasisl]

Great!

Thanks for your help!