Bungles300arms Posted April 23, 2021 Share #1 Posted April 23, 2021 Hi There, about 3 months ago I built up a microserver N36L server to pretend to be a Synology DS3615xs using Jun's Loader v1.03b. Massive thanks to Jun for all his hard work and Thanks to polanskiman for writing up some great guides. I ended up buying a HP NC360T NIC and everything worked fine with DSM 6.2.3 (DSM_DS3615XS_25426 update 3) I was delighted to find a use for the old N36L, I was using it as a backup server, plex media server and bitwarden password manager (after lastpass changed their offering). I Made the mistake of updating to DSM 6.2.4 (DSM_DS3615XS_25556) when I got the: "DSM 6.2.4-25556 is available for download" message. The update installs but then the microserver does not obtain an IP address and get discoverable to synology This has effectively nuked my data as the drives and storage pools each got an updated version of DSM system install applied to them. As the "recover install" option never gets an IP address from my router after reboot I'm stuffed and will have to do a fresh install and copy all the data back to the NAS and reinstall and reconfigure all the packages. Would be great if there was a utility to apply (downgrade) a DSM system install to all the drives in a storage pool without nuking the data. I presume that what has happened is newer versions of DSM have (understandably) started dropping support for older NIC's. Anyway though it worth posting this in case any other users of old HP Microservers are just about to attempt the update to DSM 6.2.4 DONT! If any brave person does make it work please share what NIC you are using. Cheers Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dfds Posted April 23, 2021 Share #2 Posted April 23, 2021 @Bungles300arms your data will still be intact, the update only changes the system partitions, if you follow the instructions in this guide you can downgrade to 6.2.3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungles300arms Posted April 23, 2021 Author Share #3 Posted April 23, 2021 (edited) @DfdsYes thanks, I spotted that straight after my post I'll have a go over the weekend. It'll be good to know how to get data off the drives in an emergency anyway. I'm currently running spinrite on all the drives to see if there any issues with the drives themselves. Edited April 23, 2021 by Bungles300arms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onknight Posted April 23, 2021 Share #4 Posted April 23, 2021 is there anyway to block the updates Till we have a solution to for them to install correctly I'm still on 6.2.3-25426 Update 3 It keeps sending Messages to update Phone every few hours .. Annoying as hell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dfds Posted April 23, 2021 Share #5 Posted April 23, 2021 Control panel\Update & restore\Update settings\Important updates only Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amikot Posted April 23, 2021 Share #6 Posted April 23, 2021 You can always block address of update server on the router. What is that address - I don't know. Hopefully it's not the same as for packages centre - otherwise you would have no ability to install any synology software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbtec Posted August 11, 2021 Share #7 Posted August 11, 2021 @Bungles300arms Also a big fan of the old N36L. Please see progress on the RedPill loader, in particular my post on August 1 🙂 Have tried very hard to kill it with deliberate power crashes, installs and uninstalls, but so far after a week of abuse its still rock solid on 6.2.4-25556. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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