"Double Upgrade" with new upgrade method

[sreknob]

Hi All - 

 

I have one server that I hit the update button on but didn't reboot yet, and now there is a new version.

 

Is there any way with the new upgrade workflow to complete a "double upgrade", meaning skipping an intermediate version if you previously hit upgrade and didn't reboot or if an upgrade came out shortly after starting an upgrade to the previous version?

 

In the past, I could just use the update tool again to get to the current version prior to rebooting, but it appears that there is no easy way to do this "double upgrade" anymore. I now need to reboot to get to the intermediate version, then reboot a second time after updating again to get to latest (save manually doing the upgrade on the flash).

 

Have we lost this ability to do this easily with the new enforced workflow? If so, any chance this could be address in future versions of the new update workflow? Or is this already possible and am I missing something?

 

Thanks!

 

EDIT - Looks like I was able to work around this for now by using the old update method. I use the Update Assistant which checked for a new version as part of it and then click on the banner notification at the top to update the server. Then it used the old update method to successfully complete it. Still, it would be nice to include this ability in the new update workflow instead.

Edited February 24 by sreknob
added workaound

[itimpi]

17 minutes ago, sreknob said:

Have we lost this ability to do this easily with the new enforced workflow? If so, any chance this could be address in future versions of the new update workflow? Or is this already possible and am I missing something?

 

 

You can always revert to doing things manually as described here in the online documentation accessible via the Manual link at the bottom of the Unraid GUI. 

[sreknob]

21 minutes ago, itimpi said:

 

You can always revert to doing things manually as described here in the online documentation accessible via the Manual link at the bottom of the Unraid GUI. 

 

Thanks itimpi - I am aware of the manual process, it's just nicer to hit a button 🙂

 

Maybe more of a suggestion for the new method as it matures further.

 

For now, using the Update Assistant tool seems to work around this issue.

 

Thanks

[SimonF]

43 minutes ago, sreknob said:

 

Thanks itimpi - I am aware of the manual process, it's just nicer to hit a button 🙂

 

Maybe more of a suggestion for the new method as it matures further.

 

For now, using the Update Assistant tool seems to work around this issue.

 

Thanks

You need to be careful with this on 6.12 as overlay filesystems are in use which are still using the previous bz files.

 

Doing a 2nd update will cause an issue as it will delete the bz files in previous and move the current. Likely to get a system issue before reboot.

[itimpi]

39 minutes ago, SimonF said:

You need to be careful with this on 6.12 as overlay filesystems are in use which are still using the previous bz file

I recommend doing this on a different machine rather than in situ on the server do this issue is then not relevant.

[sreknob]

Thanks for the information - I was not aware of the overly file system issue.

 

Having said this, I've never had a problem in the past, so perhaps I'm just lucky.

 

It would make sense if this was somehow integrated into the new update workflow in this case. There is no reason to overwrite the "previous" folder file as the intermediate version never was booted, so the previous should say as is. I suppose it could be tracked by comparing the versions between what is loaded and what is in the previous folder before copying over the current files.

Edited February 25 by sreknob