Upgrade or reinstall?

Tinkerboy · Oct 5th 2019

Hi there,

On my computer runs version 3.0.99 under Kernel 4.9.0. Currently we are at version 4.1.x and kernel 5.3? Does it make sense to upgrade Kernel and Openmediavault or should I reinstall the system better?

macom · Oct 6th 2019

Usually the upgrade from OMV3 to OMV4 works quite well.
Are you using any plugins that are not available for OMV4? You have to remove them first.
Are you using RAID?

And you might face an issue with kernel backports - there are many threads about it:
omv-release-upgrade throws errors & stops

Adoby · Oct 6th 2019

Backup your data and your current setup.

Try to upgrade. If that is easy and works fine, you are done. If not, restore the backup.

Try to reinstall from scratch. If that is easy, you are done. If not, restore the backup.

Blabla · Oct 10th 2019

I would rather wait for OMV5 and install everything from the scratch, it's way less hassle imho.

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