[rt-users] upgrading from 3.0.11 to 3.4.4

[Ruslan Zakirov]

On 10/13/05, Luke Vanderfluit <lvanderf at internode.com.au> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have been given the task to upgrade RT from 3.0.11 to 3.4.4.
> I have installed 3.4.4 on a temporary box with apache 1.3.27, mysql
> 4.0.26 with mod_perl and mod_ssl compiled statically in apache.
>
> I will have to upgrade the database schema/tables to accommodate for 3.4.4
> I've gone through the mysql schemas for both 3.0.12 and 3.4.4 (assuming
> that 3.0.12 is the same as 3.0.11; let me know if I'm wrong :-)
>
> Any suggestions on  what would be the best upgrade scenario?
>
> My first scenario was this:
> -Do a fresh install of 3.4.4, upgrade the database tables to whatever is
> required.
> -Alter a 2.7GIG database dump from the old 3.0.11 so that it fits into
> the new 3.4.4 schema. (this sounds like an impossible thing to do!).
>
> So I may have to do incremental upgrades from 3.0.11
>
> Any suggestions or thoughts welcome,
1) read README and UPGRADING files
2) you shouldn't change DB manually, there is directory with scripts
that change database schema for you in RT's distribution(again read
README)




>
> Kind regards.
> Luke.
>
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Best regards, Ruslan.