Automatic updates?

no_jah · Aug 25th 2015

I know Openmediavault is checking for new updates dayly, but is it possible to have them installed automatically?

votdev · Aug 25th 2015

No, but you can do it manually via cron script for example.

UZI · Aug 25th 2015

You might use this in OMV task planner
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y

Cheers
UZI

no_jah · Aug 25th 2015

Quote from UZI

You might use this in OMV task planner
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y

Cheers
UZI

Thanks, that worked just fine.
I just have to wait for some actual updates to arrive.

rals2007 · Aug 25th 2015

Nice. I wish OMV will have this feature.

ryecoaaron · Aug 25th 2015

auto updates on a server is a dangerous idea...

(:Pro:) · Nov 10th 2015

Quote from ryecoaaron

auto updates on a server is a dangerous idea...

Only is opensource

ryecoaaron · Nov 10th 2015

Quote from (:Pro:)

Only is opensource

Not sure what that means...

1uke_ · Aug 11th 2017

Hi @ryecoaaron, I was just searching for auto updates and found this thread.

Can you explain further why 'auto updates on a server is a dangerous idea'?

I was thinking about auto updating but I don't want to break my system, it would be really helpful to me if you could help me understand further why auto updating is bad.

Thanks for your help with this

votdev · Aug 11th 2017

Quote from 1uke_

Hi @ryecoaaron, I was just searching for auto updates and found this thread.

Can you explain further why 'auto updates on a server is a dangerous idea'?

I was thinking about auto updating but I don't want to break my system, it would be really helpful to me if you could help me understand further why auto updating is bad.

Thanks for your help with this

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It does install updates without your knowledge. Normally you should check what has been changed and then decide if you want to update or not.

Merion · Dec 15th 2019

Sorry for the thread resurrection, but I'm curious about this too.

I'm a rather inexperinced user who appreciates the the user friendlyness of OMV. Setting up my NAS was no problem at all even for someone who knows only the very basics of linux. But from WIndows I'm used to automatic updates and when I look at the available updates list in OMV, I have no idea whatsoever what exactly these will do and if there is any chance of them breaking my system. Until now I just check maybe once a week and simply install everything new that's available. So naturally I wondered about auto-updating as this becomes a little tedious.

But appearantly installing every update is a bad thing? Color me a little confused...

macom · Dec 15th 2019

Personally I always update everything. It never broke anything except one time when I had not enough space on the OS drive. In that case I was glad to have a backup of my system drive.

I would not automatize the update process. If you do it manually you see if something goes wrong and check what it was.

Adoby · Dec 15th 2019

I have several OMV NAS. I update one first. Everything. If all goes well I update the rest. There has never been any problem. I like to do it when I know I have time to fix any problems. Say a Saturday morning with nothing much else going on.

d13m · Mar 4th 2020

Also wanted to ask the same question and just created one more scheduler job (I have 2 more jobs for automatic update containers) with Daily scheduler:

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apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y

It works fine and server doesn`t ask my attention to installation.

gderf · Mar 4th 2020

I wouldn't do an apt-get dist-upgrade in an automatic unattended manner. Suggest changing that to apt-get upgrade.

ryecoaaron · Mar 5th 2020

If only they had a package meant to do automatic upgrades... https://packages.debian.org/buster/unattended-upgrades

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