bearcat Posted March 26, 2017 Share #1 Posted March 26, 2017 Hi, I have been searching for some time, to find a "safe path" to update my 2 oldest boxes, (HP-N54L) who is currently running as DS3612xs with DSM 4.3-3827 Update 8. Current uptime was just passing 400 days today (after a power-outage), so they have been rock solid stable. In addition to these, I have had a "spare" N54L and a G8, running ESXi with some virtual DSM machines. Now, I jut got a "pre-owned" N40L, and I have been playing around with DSM 5x and 6x, before I decided to stay with DSM 5.2-5967 Update 2. Now, my BIG question is: how can I safely upgrade my 4.3 boxes to 5.2, without loosing my data? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craggles Posted March 26, 2017 Share #2 Posted March 26, 2017 I am on the exact same DSM version (4.3-3827 update 8) I'm running an HP N54L,I to would love to know how to upgrade to version 5.2,,If I have to loose data I'm not to bothered,Ive just no idea how to do it Watching this post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dfds Posted March 26, 2017 Share #3 Posted March 26, 2017 I did exactly the same thing a few months ago. I updated to DSM 5.0-4493 then went to 5.2-5592. I didn't loose any data or settings but I did have a backup of both just in case. You can find the relevant boot images here: http://xpenology.me/downloads/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearcat Posted April 1, 2017 Author Share #4 Posted April 1, 2017 @Dfds: did you just make a new USB boot device, and updated/migrated with the .pat ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dfds Posted April 2, 2017 Share #5 Posted April 2, 2017 Yes I did, but as I said I had previously backed up my data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearcat Posted April 6, 2017 Author Share #6 Posted April 6, 2017 @Dfds: Thanks, I might do some "spring cleaning" before backing up any important stuff and jump into the migrate process Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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