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nanoprobe
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I want to update my current version of BOINC to a newer one. How do I save the WUs that are already in progress so the new version can pick up where I stopped the old one?
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Just update, it automatically stops the current run, installs the new stuff, then starts where it left off on the current WUs....
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Sekerob
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In principle you just install over. The new version will stop the client, migrate the data and offer to start the new client. Do this while disconnected from the internet and first making a backup, when the client as been fully stopped in case you don't trust the upgrade process. Done it probably 100 times or more and only lost the data once, due a bug. No one has reported this happening for 6.2.28 or 6.10.18, if that's the client you're going for.
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JmBoullier
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Note that the automatic update described in the pevious posts is true for Windows configurations.
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....you mean there is something other than Windows....Wow, who would have thought that!
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Sekerob
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Believe it or not, there's a hi level of confidence that it is Woz. A Maccer or a Nixer would almost certainly say so... but to fill almost all possibles, the manual in a wiki from the official developers site:
----------------------------------------http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC It should still be data-lossless :D edit: and as a bonus, the search command for all results on the term re-installing: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Special:Search?search=re-installing&go=Go Lot's to read ;>)
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JmBoullier
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Sek, I believe you that a user not mentioning the OS is generally a Windows one.
---------------------------------------- I was just thinking of future readers who will find this thread when looking for the way to upgrade their Linux daemon installation, for example. For that purpose, many thanks for these two precious links (I have bookmarked them). |
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nanoprobe
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Thanks guys. Updates went smoothly. All 5 of them. Now if I could just figure out how to update BOINC in DCLinux I'd be a happy camper but it won't accept my password and it won't let me change it and I've spent hours googling for answers and nothing I've tried will work. It's not really a biggy but it just irks me.
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