Napp-it Update

You can upgrade/ update napp-it quite independently from the underlying OS
with menu About >> Update

Prior an update a backup BE is created so you can select the former state during boot.
A reboot is not required as the updater restarts all napp-it services

After an initial setup you run the free release of napp-it. With the evaluation key some but
not all Pro features are available. If you have a Pro Key, you should upgrade to napp-it Pro
as not all Pro features are available in the Free edition.

You can update/ downgrade between last 5 downloads.
If you select activate, an already downloaded release will be used.
If you select download, a napp-it release is downloaded (again).

If something happens or if you want not only update napp-it but also
tools like smartmontools, run the online wget installer. This will keep all settings intact.

If you want to jump between a very old napp-it and a current one, you may need
to run About > update twice ex from 2015 or older release to 16.01 then to 17.01.
Just select the newest one that is offered in About > Update.

Napp-it Reinstall

If you want to reinstall your appliance, reinstall the OS and napp-it via wget.
If you want to restore settings, backup and restore /var/web-gui/_log/* either
manually or via backup-job. With napp-it Pro you can use menu User > restore
to restore settings. The pool can be simply imported via menu Pools > import.

If you reinstall the appliance and want to continue a replication without a backup
of settings, recreate a replication job with old job-id (get it from snapnames)

For an AiO setup under ESXi you can import a newer template (OmniOS preconfigured + napp-it)

Napp-it cs Install (Serverpart)

no installation required, just download and run

ZFS Server on BSD/Illumos/Linux/Solaris
wget -O - www.napp-it.org/napp-itcs | perl

This copies napp-it cs_server to /opt/web-gui
After initial setup: Sync server.auth in that folder with the memberfile on Windows
After a second download, napp-it cs is (re)started

ZFS Server on OSX
Download cs_server.zip and uncompress to /opt/web-gui (or any other location) and start (terminal)
sudo perl /path_to_cs_server/start_server_as_admin.pl

ZFS Server on Windows
Download xampp.zip and uncompress to c:/xampp (or any other location) and start (terminal)
start server vie admin terminal: c./xampp/perl/bin/perl /path_to_cs_server/start_server_as_admin.pl.

Update napp-it cs server
Re download and restart

Client/ web-gui frontend on Windows

no installation required, just download and run

Download our minimal xampp.zip and uncompress to c:\xampp
Start with a mouse right click on c:\xampp\web-gui\data\start_zfs-gui_as_asmin.bat (as admin)
Add memberservers to menu ZFS Servergroups with same auth as on member /opt/web-gui/cs_server/server.auth

Update frontend web-gui
stop webserver and replace /xampp/web-gui/data with newer version, restart
A online update is planned

napp-it 01.06.2025