Hi All
First off thanks to the awesome development team for putting together such a great piece of S/W and the helpful people who hang out on the forum offering assistance. :)
I'm hoping someone can give me some guidance regarding upgrading. My goal is stability over latest and greatest. Safety of the file system is of top priority-- restoring about 10/11GB of data from a collection of USB backup drives is a too much work to risk for the sake of rushing into an upgrade that isn't stable!
Current Config: FreeNAS-8.3.1-RELEASE-x64 (r13452) - G620 / 16GB RAM / 4x3TB ZPOOL2, 2x4TB ZPOOL - behind 2 stateful NAT firewall routers (no direct internet connectivity). The box serves files to 3 windows boxes, a couple of nix boxes and a nix based media player over CIFS. I also login and periodically run a batch file to pull down an rsync backup over SSH from a shared hosting site. (Outgoing connections only.)
I am "OK" on the command line with frequent reading of the man pages, but troubleshooting a pooched FreeBSD box is not something I can do on my own, and I can't afford to have the FreeNAS box down for several days (or worse)!
First off thanks to the awesome development team for putting together such a great piece of S/W and the helpful people who hang out on the forum offering assistance. :)
I'm hoping someone can give me some guidance regarding upgrading. My goal is stability over latest and greatest. Safety of the file system is of top priority-- restoring about 10/11GB of data from a collection of USB backup drives is a too much work to risk for the sake of rushing into an upgrade that isn't stable!
Current Config: FreeNAS-8.3.1-RELEASE-x64 (r13452) - G620 / 16GB RAM / 4x3TB ZPOOL2, 2x4TB ZPOOL - behind 2 stateful NAT firewall routers (no direct internet connectivity). The box serves files to 3 windows boxes, a couple of nix boxes and a nix based media player over CIFS. I also login and periodically run a batch file to pull down an rsync backup over SSH from a shared hosting site. (Outgoing connections only.)
- Should I upgrade to 9.2.1.6 (or .7 etc if I see similar activity in the bug reports) or wait for a stable 9.2.x (which reading between the lines, I would assume is at least 6 months away)?
- How can I upgrade so that I have a simple way to roll back to 8.3.1 if I have problems? (I'm fine with waiting to upgrade ZPOOLS--If I read things correctly that is possible.) Manual doesn't really talk about downgrading.
- Have I interpreted what I have been reading in the forum/bug reports correctly:
- the 9.2.1.x branch is a good balance of stability, being "up to date" and "will be ready soon".
- getting 9.2.1.x stable has been a bit of an challenge.
- The mention of a 9.2.1.6 in the bug means there will be a 9.2.1.6 in a few weeks.
(Any guess on ETA?)
I am "OK" on the command line with frequent reading of the man pages, but troubleshooting a pooched FreeBSD box is not something I can do on my own, and I can't afford to have the FreeNAS box down for several days (or worse)!