- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_testing_(software)
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/liber#Latin – the inner bark of trees, paper, parchment, book
My tiny little “smoke test” WRT “did the software / firmware update to my Synology DiskStation” succeed:
- can I access the respective https://diskstation999:5001/webman in my Firefox? (I am using Firefox for this, as it (usually) remembers the respective login credentials as opposed to Chrome, which doesn’t – I guess, the web page tells the browser to not offer filling in the credentials, and Chrome obeys to it and Firefox (ususally) doesn’t)
- can I ssh to it, and can I run “bash -login”?
- can I rsync to the other two DiskStations? – additional test on the primary NAS
Which one of my DiskStations got updated, in which order, how successful was the update, what trouble arose:
- DiskStation000 –DS213+, 2-bay, the one accessible from outside – success
- DiskStation001 – DS112+, 1-bay – success, but only after restarting Firefox – no idea, why
- DiskStation002 – DS115j, 1-bay, my prime “mobile” NAS – postponed, until everything with the other two is (almost) perfect – success
Before my primary NAS (002) gets updated:
- I back up my openSUSE Linux VM to 000+001+002
- I make double-sure, that I back up everything from 002 to 001 and 000, that I usually just back up to 002 itself and only to 000 and 001 once in a while: book library (sounds redundant, doesn’t it?!! “library” stems from the Latin word for “book” – see above!), music library, quicken banking, …