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[VU+ Uno4KSE] What is the best way to update OpenVIX please?

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Hi

Just wanted to know what the best order is for an upgrade to 6.3 is please.
Over the last few weeks I've had problems and this morning decided to install a new SSD (posted about it in another thread) and I basically want to start from scratch except for some saved settings.

So in my head I:
1) Factory Reset

2) Flash the new 6.3 OpenVIX image

3) This is where I come unstuck.
I want to keep all my settings so do I just flash the smaller Backup file eg vix-rel-5.4.014-20230110-1852.tar which is 5.89meg or do I go for a full image containing 6.2 eg openvix-vuuno4kse-release-5.4.014-20230109_103622.zip which is 86.9mb?
Obviously I'm thinking if I flash the latter it then goes back to 6.2.

Any advice appreciated
 
No what you do is use Vix image manager, and flash online. You will get option to restore settings say yes, then restore plugins say yes.

Go menu setup vix, image manager, yellow to download lastest version, then blue to flash. Its that simple.
 
bmitie said:
No what you do is use Vix image manager, and flash online. You will get option to restore settings say yes, then restore plugins say yes.

Go menu setup vix, image manager, yellow to download lastest version, then blue to flash. Its that simple.
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Thanks for that, so it updates what you've already got with 6.3.
Excellent.
 
aardvark5 said:
Thanks for that, so it updates what you've already got with 6.3.
Excellent.
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It's not an update. It's a completely new image, a reflash of your box which doesn't affect recordings or whatever you have stored on your disk. Before the flash it performs a settings backup to disk and notes any plugins you have installed. After it reboots it will ask if you wish to restore your settings and any plugins.
 
Joe_90 said:
It's not an update. It's a completely new image, a reflash of your box which doesn't affect recordings or whatever you have stored on your disk. Before the flash it performs a settings backup to disk and notes any plugins you have installed. After it reboots it will ask if you wish to restore your settings and any plugins.
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Thanks for that.
 
Avoid FACTORY RESET as it can screw box up and as above.
 
Factory reset clears settings and provides no advantage as the re-flash clears everything in flash anyway.
 
Bugger, nothing goes right for me.
At 12:30pm I created a full backup just in case.
I have now flashed 3 times from inside Image Manager and when my machine reboots it takes me to the screens where you first put an image on - setup display, internet etc.
Nowhere have I seen an option asking if I want to restore my settings :(

UPDATE
it did it on the 5th time
 
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You need to make a settings backup with Backup Manager from a fully working system and then flash a new image and restore.

Best thing is to restore your full image backup and then make a settings backup and then flash the new image.
 
Willo3092 said:
You need to make a settings backup with Backup Manager from a fully working system and then flash a new image and restore.

Best thing is to restore your full image backup and then make a settings backup and then flash the new image.
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It's all working after the 5th flash.
I've now made a backup of a full image and my backup file.
 
The ImageManager does a settings backup by default when you use it to flash a downloaded image. There's no actual need to make a separate backup beforehand, but "belt & braces";)
 
aardvark5 said:
Bugger, nothing goes right for me.
At 12:30pm I created a full backup just in case.
I have now flashed 3 times from inside Image Manager and when my machine reboots it takes me to the screens where you first put an image on - setup display, internet etc.
Nowhere have I seen an option asking if I want to restore my settings :(

UPDATE
it did it on the 5th time
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I know you've sorted it, but the first boot after the flash should detect a backup file, unless it's in some non-standard location. Did you use the ImageManager to flash the download? It should/would have done a backup before the flash if you used it.
 
His other thread today had a storage device issue. So if there was an issue with storage device, the settings backup would not have been made to the device. If the device is not detected at reboot, following flashing an image, the restore option is not offered either.

Anyway, it is done now.
 
Joe_90 said:
The ImageManager does a settings backup by default when you use it to flash a downloaded image. There's no actual need to make a separate backup beforehand, but "belt & braces";)
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It didn't do it the first 4 times, don't know why, I was even looking on FTP and there wasn't one there.
 
@abu indicated that you maybe had issues with a storage device/disk. It would explain why the settings backup wasn't made beforehand or wasn't detected afterwards.
 
Joe_90 said:
@abu indicated that you maybe had issues with a storage device/disk. It would explain why the settings backup wasn't made beforehand or wasn't detected afterwards.
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I put the new drive in around 11am, messed around a bit and made multiple full backups and smaller backups with my final ones being around 12:30pm.
I then started on my upgrade so at 12:30pm the machine was definitely making backups because I was pulling from my VU+ and saving them on my NAS.
When I started the upgrade I noticed there was no backup or imagebackups folder on the SSD!
It then appeared on my 5th install.
 
Might your image and backups be saved on another box?

I put in an SSD into a Zgemma H7S and found Image and Backups on my Et 10000 hdd and no idea how they got there.
 
cactikid said:
Might your image and backups be saved on another box?

I put in an SSD into a Zgemma H7S and found Image and Backups on my Et 10000 hdd and no idea how they got there.
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It's been sorted - see post #13. I don't think it's anything to do with SSD as such. Both of you have had issues with replacing HDD. Maybe something to do with how the new disk was initialised and mounted, maybe? Without logs difficult to tell.
 
cactikid said:
Might your image and backups be saved on another box?

I put in an SSD into a Zgemma H7S and found Image and Backups on my Et 10000 hdd and no idea how they got there.
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I use OpenWebIf for 99% of my satellite usage, I sit by my PC using the remote on it.
In this instance I had FTP software open where I could see inside my Synology NAS and also my VU+ and the first 4 times no files went into either, it was the 4th time I saw a backup folder created on the VU+.
It sounds like the SSD was initialised correctly if that's what makes the folders.
 
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