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Best Practices Preparing for Firmware Upgrade
A bit slow on the uptake for upgrade this time, mostly because I've been busy traveling and wound up learning about 6.7.1 in the DVBLogic user forums when people began complaining their USB tuners st...
Well I would also suggest making sure your backup is up to date.: ReadyNAS OS 6: Firmware Upgrade Guide and Tips
Well I would also suggest making sure your backup is up to date.: ReadyNAS OS 6: Firmware Upgrade Guide and Tips
Some of those things should be part of normal maintenance, and probably shouldn't be tied specifically to firmware updates
- monitoring disk and volume health
- documenting and backing up the system configuration
The disabling/reenabling apps could be limited to upgrades when the kernel is being updated (though that does require some trust in the release notes).
FWIW, these app failures show the need for something like docker, which has been on the idea exchange for a long time now.
StephenB wrote:Some of those things should be part of normal maintenance, and probably shouldn't be tied specifically to firmware updates
- monitoring disk and volume health
- documenting and backing up the system configuration
The disabling/reenabling apps could be limited to upgrades when the kernel is being updated (though that does require some trust in the release notes).
FWIW, these app failures show the need for something like docker, which has been on the idea exchange for a long time now.
Too bad there isn't an option that allows us to routinely backup system logs and more importantly the system configurations. Note, the Alerts does have checked options for Disk failures and Volume issues but they are not real intuitive for most which is why the complete system logs are so important for support. And by complete I don't mean the logs you can grab with RAIDar but rather via the GUI. Anyhow, does anyone know if this is on the idea exchange already for automatic backup of logs/configurations? The only reason I mention it is due to all the inactive volume posts I've seen lately which includes myself after upgrading to 6.7.1 on my legacy NAS.
It might not be a bad idea to LINK that article in every copy of the release notes. :D
We already do. We link to an article providing instructions to update the firmware. At the top of that article is a link to the KB I linked to above.
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