Quick Update Question ?

[Tony_Daly]

Hello Everyone.

A quick question if I may please.

I have a Gigablue Quad Plus running Apollo ver 041. Kernel 3.14.2

Can I use the online update to go to the latest version of Apollo & restore my setting from a backup or do I have to do something else first ?

Which image do I use HD or the usual one ?

Thank you.

[Andy_Hazza]

Hi, you can do a backup and restore BUT you will need to flash update it or ftp update it.

[Tony_Daly]

Hi, you can do a backup and restore BUT you will need to flash update it or ftp update it.

Do you mean update by USB ?
Thanks.

[Andy_Hazza]

Yeah buddy. The feeds and sever have had an overhaul and OTA is not possible until you are on the latest, which is Build 64. But you won't lose anything as you will be able to restore from the backup you will make prior to updating.

[Tony_Daly]

Yeah buddy. The feeds and sever have had an overhaul and OTA is not possible until you are on the latest, which is Build 64. But you won't lose anything as you will be able to restore from the backup you will make prior to updating.

Thanks Andy.
Much obliged.

[Joe_90]

You could also do what's known as a "couch flash". Assuming you have a settings backup made you can use the ViX Image Backup menu to download the latest entire image to your Quad Plus (I assume you have a HDD or large USB drive installed?) and restore from it. Then you can use the backup manager to restore your settings. No stick required!

[Tony_Daly]

You could also do what's known as a "couch flash". Assuming you have a settings backup made you can use the ViX Image Backup menu to download the latest entire image to your Quad Plus (I assume you have a HDD or large USB drive installed?) and restore from it. Then you can use the backup manager to restore your settings. No stick required!

Thanks Tony.
I should have no problem flashing an image from Usb as I've done it before with image 041.
What I was unsure about was whether I could do it by online update & whether I could reload all my satellite & channel information from backup.
I don't want to start all my satellite setting again as its taken me a good bit of time to get where I am now.

[Joe_90]

No - I mean a full image flash is available without using a USB stick. Check out the ViX Image backup menu. You can download a complete image from there. It's different from the online update process in that it blows away the flash ROM in your machine rather than just updating in place. When it reboots it checks if there are settings backups (same as the first boot after a USB stick flash) and allows you to restore settings. Just saves you the walk from PC to box with USB stick in hand

[Tony_Daly]

Just to let everyone know everything worked fine for me.
I'm now on Image 064.
Thanks.