May 21, 201214 yr Hello all, I'm going to upgrade from 4.7 to 5.0-rc3 this week. I'm running out of space and I'd like to start adding 3TB disks to the array. Hope it won't come to it but if I have problems I want to confirm that it's possible to fall back to 4.7 before taking the leap. Any pointers / gotchas I should be aware of when going back to 4.7? Sorry to bug the community but the process of downgrading to 4.7 isn't documented in any "official" docs from Limetech and while there are some forum posts I'm not sure whether they apply to the latest 5.0 releases. Thanks
May 21, 201214 yr I would just backup the flash drive before upgrade. If you want to downgrade afterwards, just restore from the backup and you should be good to go
May 21, 201214 yr As far as I'm aware, yes it is possible. Take a backup of your 4.7 flash drive before upgrading. The only thing that makes 5.0 difficult to downgrade to 4.7 is the new permissions script you have to run in order to make 5.0 useable (again, as far as I'm aware of). I can't actually remember what the default permissions for 4.7 were. Pretty sure it was root:nobody - somebody will surely correct me soon. Essentially if you need to revert back you can just copy over the backup to your flash drive, change the permissions back, and you're away laughing.
May 21, 201214 yr Actually, I think LimeTech mentioned in one of the many posts that you do not need to worry about changing permissions back when reverting to version 4.7.
May 21, 201214 yr Hello all, I'm going to upgrade from 4.7 to 5.0-rc3 this week. I'm running out of space and I'd like to start adding 3TB disks to the array. Hope it won't come to it but if I have problems I want to confirm that it's possible to fall back to 4.7 before taking the leap. Any pointers / gotchas I should be aware of when going back to 4.7? Sorry to bug the community but the process of downgrading to 4.7 isn't documented in any "official" docs from Limetech and while there are some forum posts I'm not sure whether they apply to the latest 5.0 releases. Thanks Once you've added a 3TB drive you your array, there is no going back. Drives > 2.2TB are not recognized. Joe L.
May 22, 201214 yr Author Hello all, I'm going to upgrade from 4.7 to 5.0-rc3 this week. I'm running out of space and I'd like to start adding 3TB disks to the array. Hope it won't come to it but if I have problems I want to confirm that it's possible to fall back to 4.7 before taking the leap. Any pointers / gotchas I should be aware of when going back to 4.7? Sorry to bug the community but the process of downgrading to 4.7 isn't documented in any "official" docs from Limetech and while there are some forum posts I'm not sure whether they apply to the latest 5.0 releases. Thanks Once you've added a 3TB drive you your array, there is no going back. Drives > 2.2TB are not recognized. Joe L. Understood. I plan to wait a couple of weeks and make sure everything works before adding the 3TB drive. Thanks everyone for the quick responses. The community here is amazing!
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