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

[Jacob Ritorto]

RedHat is god, ftw!

On 12/13/10 10:59, Kevin Falcone wrote:
> 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