Happy New Year folks!

I decided to do some updates and will finally go from v6.11.5 to v7.x series, but I still have a few questions that don't seem addressed in the docs nor my searching these forums. I appreciate any advice!

What I've done so far:

1. completed parity check on array. result 100% good no errors. whew

2. scrubbed cache pool. result 100% good no errors. whew

3. removed old/unsupported plugins.

4. turned off all dockers and disabled auto start.

5. made a back up of the flash drive. (and the license file therein I assume)

6. from Version History, downloaded the unraid zip of my current version 6.11.5 in case I need to rollback.

7. from Version History, downloaded the unraid zip of the newest version 7.2.3 in case I need to do this manually.

So now I think I'm ready to upgrade but here's my questions:

a. I don't want to upgrade to zfs or whatever at this time. I assume the unraid won't touch these things unless I explicitly tell it to?

b. I went to the webgui -> tools -> update OS. I choose Stable and check. It reports that it only sees 7.0.1. But latest is 7.2.3. Does it only see the next available release? Or does this mean I have to update in sequential order? like 7.0.1 first. Then check again. Then do that next one. Then keep going?

c. or can I just use the manual upgrade method? (by unzipping the v7.2.3 files into the flash drive and moving the v6.11.5 files to a /previous subfolder) and rebooting?

Thanks in advance!

Edited January 1Jan 1 by darckhart
updated topic title to Solved

14 hours ago, darckhart said:

I assume the unraid won't touch these things unless I explicitly tell it to?

You would need to create a zfs pool to use it, it's not automatic.

14 hours ago, darckhart said:

It reports that it only sees 7.0.1. But latest is 7.2.3. Does it only see the next available release?

Probably because you are on such an old release, you can update to that first, then update again, or do a manual update.

14 hours ago, darckhart said:

or can I just use the manual upgrade method?

You can:

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/system-administration/maintain-and-update/upgrading-unraid/#manual-downgrade-or-upgrade

Also recommend looking at the release notes for all the major versions in between, like 6.12.0, 7.0.0, etc

Thanks for quick reply!

Yes, I had read thru the release notes before finally deciding I want to update.

I updated via the webgui as it presented them with reboot in between and everything went fine from my current v6.11.5 to Stable -> v7.0.1 -> v7.2.3

Did the Plugin Check and updated, turned on my dockers and they all work! Made another flash backup and archiving, so I'm going to consider this a smooth win! Thank you!