[rt-users] Upgrading from 3.4.5

[Thomas Sibley]

On 02/17/2012 04:58 PM, Jaime Kikpole wrote:
> Thanks.  I was assuming I should "mysqldump > backup.sql" just to be
> safe.  I don't run it in a VM (I've used RT since before VMs were
> fashionable), though.
> 
> Any thoughts on the mysqldump idea?

Yep, all of our documentation tells you to take backups.  For backing up
a 3.4.5 database, you'll want to use the --default-character-set=binary
option.  See also UPGRADING.mysql.

T.