[j-nsp] MX80 upgrade path 18.4R

[Jared Mauch]

Make sure you have a console and a copy of your full Config and you should be able to jump directly if you use the jinstall 

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> On Jun 14, 2020, at 1:18 PM, nikosietf at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> It is true that the official path will tell you that you should follow from
> 15 to 16 then 17 then 18 but I did around 30+ upgrades from 16 to 18 without
> any problems. 
>> From 10 to 15 I guess you should go to 14 first but from 16 you can safely
> move to 18 without any issues. The ones I am talking about are non-issue
> upgrades.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: juniper-nsp <juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net> On Behalf Of Tobias
> Heister
> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2020 10:59 AM
> To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] MX80 upgrade path 18.4R
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On 14.06.2020 10:50, Robert Hass wrote:
>> I have old MX80 running 10.4R14.2.
>> I would like to upgrade it to 18.4R.
>> But what upgrade I should use ?
>> 
>> 10.4R -> 15.1R and to 18.4R ?
> 
> There are probably official upgrade pathes taking a dozen intermediate steps
> (three LTS releases at a time or something like that is officially
> supported, and starting from $some version in the 16/17 all releases are
> considered LTS). As The MX80 takes ages to do just one upgrade this would
> take days. Also it could be quite hard to actually get intermediate releases
> for the older steps (JTAC typically has them on
> request)
> 
> I would suggest to backup the config do a usb reinstall to the target
> release and reapply the config.
> 
> --
> regards
> Tobias
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