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demonic1
Dec 28, 2016Star
Status:
Engineering Investigation
Never rebuild a configuration from scratch again!
I understand that a developing product needs updates. Sometimes these updates require changes to what data is expected for an element of the settings config. As a customer, when a firmware update i...
michaelkenward
Oct 13, 2017Guru - Experienced User
An earlier response suggested:
You can back up your config and restore it after the FW update!
No you can't. At least, not reliably.
New firmware sometimes adds things that are not compatible with the old firmware. Restore a backup and you still have a broken configuration.