How to upgrade from ZEVO BETA?

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How to upgrade from ZEVO BETA?

Post by chriswayg » Sun Nov 04, 2012 9:28 am

Hi and greetings to all,

I've been using the beta for almost a year now and am still using ZEVO_BETA_2012-5-7 on my MacBook Pro. Will there be another beta with with similar features (GUI, no size limits etc.)? Or should I change to the community edition? Can pools created with ZEVO BETA be read by the community edition? What do I loose/gain by moving to CE?

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Re: How to upgrade from ZEVO BETA?

Post by grahamperrin » Sun Nov 04, 2012 1:02 pm

Beyond the things that you already realise … 

You'll not lose the ZEVO Setup Assistant, but I should not recommend continuing to use it with the more recent Community Edition. (I'm not aware of any harmful effect, but it may be appropriate to focus on the most current suite of software.)

If you remove that assistant, neither Community Edition 1.1 nor Community Edition 1.1.1 will reinstall it.

Immediately after using the main installer for 1.1, apply the update to 1.1.1.

Pools created with ZEVO beta work fine with ZEVO Community Edition. I was a beta tester.

chriswayg wrote:… Will there be another beta …


Please see editions and versions of ZEVO, community and open source

Noticeable gains, in current and future versions, will include fixes relating to kernel panics. See for example the first round of fixes outlined in the Announcements sub-forum.
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Re: How to upgrade from ZEVO BETA?

Post by chriswayg » Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:36 am

Thanks, Graham for your insights. I hardly remember the setup assistant, as it somehow disappeared since one of the later beta versions. I'm comfortable to use ZFS from the commandline, just as with MacZFS. Was the setup assistant ever open-sourced? It should be fairly simple to program something like that, as its just a wrapper for the zfs cli.

I have successfully upgraded from the beta version to Zevo Community and had no issues. Its good to know, that there will be continued development and stability fixes.

After reading the warnings, that CE will only be accessible from the CLI, I was actually presently surprised, that the preference pane is still there, providing a minimal GUI for data validation. Also the growl notifications work well.
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cross references

Post by grahamperrin » Mon Nov 05, 2012 3:27 am

chriswayg wrote:… Was the setup assistant ever open-sourced? …


Hop to Source Code? then once more, hop to ZFS Setup Assistant.
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cross references

Post by grahamperrin » Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:53 pm

Earlier topics about installing Community Edition 1.1 over a past beta include:

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Re: cross references

Post by chriswayg » Thu Nov 08, 2012 6:24 am

grahamperrin wrote:Earlier topics about installing Community Edition 1.1 over a past beta include:

The links are helpful and necessary, as searching for 'zevo beta' in the forum will result in...
The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: beta zevo.

To the moderators:
Could we have topies like this stickied or moved to an FAQ section? Also, please change the forum search to be a little less restrictive.
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