I just rebooted the node and everything is up and running on v2.0.5. I'll stay here since my node has been running well and I don't want to fix whats not yet broken on the node until these update bugs are fixed. I don't want to have to go through reflashing a good memory card.
That is my thoughts as well. I am mining with 2 other miners using the node as well, all 3 using diff wallets and no problems. So no reason to chance updating it.
My choice was to download the update directly at
https://github.com/jstefanop/apolloapi-v2/releases and then simply re-flash my 3 node machines back-to-back on new MicroSD's. It's pretty much risk free and it only took about 45 seconds on each machine to reconfigure with the minimal settings. The upside to this is that I can also keep the large update file on-hand for any future needs if necessary. If this version doesn't work out I still have the old v2.0.5 MicroSD's as well as the backups for each machine. So far so good on v2.0.6.
Cheers!
Hey PennyBit,
I had made an old note that loading a newly flashed micro SD card would format the SSD card when it loaded for the first time. Has this behavior changed with v2.0.6? Does it now check first if you already have data on the SSD before trying to format it?
When you started v2.0.6 with the newly flashed micro SD card did it format your SSD card as well or do you still have all your Bitcoin Data intact?
I want to do it the way you did, since I have a new Micro SD card I want to use, as long as it doesn’t wipe all my node data. And if I take out the nvme SSD card before first startup will it try to create a data directory on the system disk instead?
Hi BrokenTractor,
When the MicroSD is flashed it is flashed it with the correct OS (Linux) along with the new default Apollo v2.0.6 OS and will overwrite anything currently on the MicroSD your aiming at (so make sure the target MicroSD has nothing on it you want to keep). The process doesn't format NVME node drive or do anything else except you will lose any "special" data you might have added in the "Bitcoin node configuration" under the "Settings" menu - things such as "listenonion=0" or "addnode=xxx.xx.xxx.xx", etc. At least that was my experience.
After you flash the new card just replace the old card with the newly flashed card and insert it into the appropriate slot and boot up. At this point you will need to re-enter your information such as wallet address, user info, etc. - the same info you were previously using is what I would suggest unless you want to change it now. After that, everything will start up and your node will pick up where it left off (or catch up first). That's it!
Cheers!