[rt-users] Upgrade to 4.01 MySQL questoin

[Paul O'Rorke]

aaah - well then that's what I must do.  Thanks for the help.  I'll let you
know how that goes.

regards

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Kevin Falcone <falcone at bestpractical.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 02:56:52PM -0700, Paul O'Rorke wrote:
> >    no - actually I'm not. I guess I have to change my plan.
> >
> >    I had thought to import the data - spend some time setting up 4.01 as
> I wanted then update the
> >    DB by running the import again. I guess this is not such a good idea.
> I'm thinking then that
> >    I'll have to make careful note of the set up changes and do it all in
> one 'fell swoop'...
>
> I'm curious how you were going to 'run the import again' to pick up
> the 3.8.4 data, especially considering the numerous schema changes.
>
> >    Unless there is a way to update my imported and 'patched' 4.01 DB with
> a 3.8.4 dump just to
> >    get the most recent changes.
> >
> >    Does what I'm trying to do make sense?
>
> You can't just somehow apply the new data in your 3.8.4 database to
> your 4.0.1 database and rerun part of the upgrader.
>
> You'll need to document your upgrade process and run it in one
> process.
>
> -kevin
>
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