[rt-users] Possible to downgrade DB from 3.8 to 3.6?

Kevin Falcone falcone at bestpractical.com
Mon Dec 13 10:59:51 EST 2010


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 01:50:44PM +0000, Khusro Jaleel wrote:
> I am thinking of migrating an RT instance from a machine running RT
> 3.8.1 to a machine running 3.6, but I'm not sure if this is even
> possible? Is it possible to move the MySQL DBs straight across from
> 3.8 to 3.6 without any issues? If there are any tweaks to be done,
> are they major?

There are some pretty major schema differences, in particular
encodings.  I can't recommend against this enough.

> I am trying to use a Redhat machine which only has the official EPEL
> RT packages which are currently only at 3.6.

> If I can't move the DBs across, is there perhaps a way I can perform
> a default install on 3.6, then export / import the old (3.8) data
> in?

Not really

-kevin
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