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Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2 and OS6, yes?
I am trying to decide whether to upgrade my Ultra 2 Plus to OS6. I realize this is not officially supported by netgear, but basically, OS4 is kind of dying with no more support either, 3rd party add...
Standard Linux packages may store too much data on the root volume. Apps should store data on the data volume.
It is true that less work should be required to get packages running on OS6. We are using a newer kernel and a newer Debian distro (and hence newer versions of some packages which are dependencies for apps) than what comes in RAIDiator-x86 4.2.x
so that seems like its just a matter of taking a look at the deb before installing it and if it is going to put something outside of /c/ then go move it later. Even now I run into that sometimes when I build some src and do "make install". But I'm basically completely paranoid to run apt-get or to install a lib or something on OS4
I'm probably gonna do it, a couple quick prep questions..
I just updated the BIOS using the only BIOS updater bin that I could find..
BIOS_Update_Package_0.5-x86.bin
This updated the BIOS on my Ultra 2 Plus to version 1.8, dated, Nov 2011. But I have no idea if this is truly the latest BIOS that I should get to before making the leap to OS6. Anyone know how I can find out what is the latest and greatest BIOS for the Ultra2plus?
Secondly, I need to backup this /c drive before I do it. I have a volume with sufficient space on another OSX machine that I can use for this task, what method would some reccomend to backup my readynas over the network before attempting this? At the least, backup my /c/ drive anyway for the data that matters, though it would be better to fully backup the root drive too in case I decide to roll back to OS4, hopefully not though. What suggestions would some of you have for the best way to backup the data over the network that way? ftp? rsync? something else?
That add-on contains the latest BIOS for your system and you have installed that.
You could use Rsync for this, I guess. Or connect to the NAS using SMB/AFP from your Mac and copy the files using your Mac.You could do a Config Backup that you could restore if you went back to OS4 (note you can't restore an OS4 config backup on OS6 or vice versa). This would backup the important NAS config.
I have an rsync job in progress, using -a option which will make sure perms and sym links, etc, get copied across also. Its not the fastest approach though, this will take quite a long time to complete. Large files transfer quickly. Directories full of many small files are transferring very very slowly. But its probably the closest thing to a real backup of everything, I am thinking. At the rate its going its going to take a few days though.
Anything else you want to warn me about before I attempt the OS upgrade?
I think I will pull one of the mirrored drives and try to install OS6 on a single drive first, I am hoping in a worst case i could take the pulled mirrored drive and put it back into the NAS and reboot the old way if I have to. Once I'm confident OS6 is working, I can put the pulled drive back in, and I hope it will consider it to be something that needs a format and sync.
I see there are two bins I need to run, one is like a prep bin that does some kind of prep work, then the other bin actually upgrades the firmware and reboots the device, and whala...OS6. do i have that right?
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