@Noggin Hello again.
yes:
yum update
should do it.
This has been seen a number of times. Basically leave the rpm db a little scrambled and can be tricky to repair. Partly down to our really old ISO but we should be fixing that soon with our “Built on openSUSE” based installer.
Agreed.
yum update
should be enough really.
This is only if the config backup was taken with a fairly recent version of Rockstor; this feature was added by @Flox in 3.9.2-52:
and the restore would, likewise, have to be performed post upgrading to at least this version.
Yes, should be.
Yes, only the ISO’s kickstart configured default btrfs arrangement is supported.
Our as yet unreleased installer tare of this. It’s image based so will just establish a supported partition / filesystem arrangement on the chosen drive and that’s it. Much quicker and much easier. Our prior installer was based on a re-badged CentOS anaconda installer. We have now departed from this arrangement entirely and will be using a kiwi constructed installer setup to configure the system with no ‘user adjustable’ options as we are attempting to achieve an appliance type approach where all config is via the rockstor Web-UI.
Hope that helps and answers your questions. And thanks for the report. We really need to get to releasing this new ISO but it has to coincide with our new Stable channel release on our Built on openSUSE offering and that’s just not quite there yet.