My apologies. My brain completely missed that you were still on V5.
The command to generate the teleporter file at the commandline on v5 is
sudo pihole -a -t teleport.tar.gz
Steps to retrieve the file are as per the other post.
Hmmm...
This won't work either, because v6 installation was started, but failed midway... Now there are a mix of Pi-hole v6 (core and web) with Pi-hole v5 (FTL).
I think the best solution would be to start over, but we can try one last thing.
@BobbyB, you can try to repair your current installation.
If it works the process will finish the v6 installation and your settings will be migrated. No need to manually copy the configuration, but as a suggestion, I think you could backup the /etc/pihole directory and all its files (just in case).
To repair Pi-hole, usually the command is pihole -r, but since you are using an unsupported OS, you will need to run:
sudo PIHOLE_SKIP_OS_CHECK=true pihole -r
If the process finishes without errors, please post the output of pihole -v.
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Hello,
the update worked. i can now access the pihole web interface/ admin page. Do i still need to update the raspberry pi buster OS ( 10) to bookworm OS (12)?
if i run "pihole -up" in the future will it update the pihole or cause issues?
if i do need to update the OS, can i update via terminal? i have been burned many times on windows OS when updating and then the Windows system OS or applications start to glitch and now i have a "if it is NOT broke DON"T fix it" mindset.
thank you guys for all your help
i also made a debug token in case anything failed with update:
https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/U1Qsz8vi
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You don't "need", but it would be a really good idea. It will avoid issues with future updates.
We suggest you to do a fresh OS installation. A complete re-installation.
Usually attempts to upgrade an OS will cause more trouble than you expect and will take more time than installing a fresh OS. This will avoid glitches.
Create a Pi-hole config backup (teleporter) and save it in different computer, install a new OS, install Pi-hole and then restore the teleporter backup.
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Hello,
Thank you for information. i will update after i figure out how to backup the unbound service.
does the V6 pihole STILL have the individual search function like in previous versions? i can NOT find it when i go to the query log section anymore. BEFORE it made it easy to find ads and trackers by typing it in manually and blocking them.
do i need to scroll through all the query feed to find the ads and trackers i want to block now?
Thank you for your help
You're going to see the OS Unsupported notice until you update the OS. And none of the Pi-hole/FTL code is tested on old OS releases so there's no guarantee that everything will continue to work. We don't try to break support but we also do check to make sure that it works on 10.
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i will update Dan. it felt like a windows update headache having outdated OS. once i figure out to backup the unbound files i will do an update.
Do i just pull out the micro sd card, erase the card and reinstall by flashing image and going through setup process again?
i found the search at the bottom of the query log. looks like it was moved from the top area to bottom where it says "domain" thank god it is still there. so much easier to block ads and trackers
Fair enough that 6 doesn't work (isn't tested) on older OSs - and my honest thanks for all the work that goes into the project (thanks for renaming blacklist)
My concern is the OS check happens at an odd point. I ran the update, was told that my OSs was too old. Appparently that happened before FTL was updated but after main Pi-hol and web.
Why check after?
Here's my pihole -v after that (and a pihole -r, trying to resolve the /admin Forbidden symptoms)
Pi-hole version is v6.0.6 (Latest: v6.0.6)
web version is v6.1 (Latest: v6.1)
FTL version is v5.25.2 (Latest: v6.1)
Turns out the only way was to keep going
sudo PIHOLE_SKIP_OS_CHECK=true pihole -r
I'll get around to replacing Raspbian 10 soon - things work for now. But this detection and prevention process feels like the bartender checking a kid's ID after the third drink (except, in this case, the problem is too old not too young)
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