# Lotus Miner: upgrades
This guide covers how to safely upgrade Lotus when running a miner.
The are two types of upgrades. The upgrade in-place is the default procedure and just updates the software. The upgrade with reset removes all the data and starts from scratch:
# Upgrade in-place
- Safely shutdown your Lotus Miner as explained here.
- Shutdown any seal workers
- Shutdown your Lotus Node (
lotus daemon stop
orsystemctl stop lotus-daemon
) - Pull the new version and rebuild. For more information read the Lotus installation guide again:
export RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native -g"
export FFI_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE=1
git pull
git checkout <tag_or_branch>
git submodule update
make clean
make all
make install
- Start the Lotus daemon and wait for sync:
lotus daemon
# or when using systemctl
systemctl start lotus-daemon
lotus sync wait
- Start your miner and your workers
lotus-miner run
lotus-worker run
# Upgrade with reset
WARNING
This upgrade procedure should only be used as a last resort or when the chain has been upgraded and requires such action to be taken.
It is similar to re-installing everything from scratch, so you can follow the usual installation and miner-setup guides after it. Before you do this, consider:
- Backing up your Lotus wallets
- You may want to backup your Lotus Node and Miner configurations as well.
Once you are ready, stop everything and delete the data folders (or rename them):
# Assuming you are using the default data folders
rm -rf ~/.lotus
rm -rf ~/.lotusminer
rm -rf ~/.lotusworker
After that Lotus applications will start from scratch.