Upgrading from 4.7 to 5.0.3

[smburns25]

I am going to upgrade from 4.7 to 5.0.3 today and would like some help.  I would like to revert my USB/Flash to a stock file, but retain the configs for my shares, etc.

 

I copied this from a sig file:

Revert to stock system:

1. Rename the /boot(flash)/config/plugins directory.

2. Rename the /boot(flash)/plugins directory.

3. Rename boot(flash)/extra/.

4. Use the stock go file (boot(flash)/config/go).

 

Instead of renaming the folders above, can I simply delete them?

 

Will this essentially reset everything and keep my shares intact or if there more that I need to do to remove any add-ons that are installed?

 

Just want a quick sanity check before I take the array offline and perform the upgrade.

 

Thanks in advance

[itimpi]

That should work fine.  You can delete the folders instead of renaming them if you prefer that.

 

Before doing anything it iss always a good idea to make a backup elsewhere of the entire contents of the USB drive as that makes it easy to revert to the previous setup if that becomes desirable for any reason.

[smburns25]

Thanks for the quick reply.  The first thing I did was make two backup copies of the flash drive as you can never be too careful.

 

Off to upgrade the server.

 

 

Fingers crossed.........