[rt-users] Upgrade or migrate 3.8.4 to 4.0?

[Paul O'Rorke]

that's embarrasing...  sorry...

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Kevin Falcone <falcone at bestpractical.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:20:28PM -0700, Paul O'Rorke wrote:
> >    Hi,
> >
> >    I've been following along with user's experience in moving to RT4. In
> order to see if I wanted
> >    to upgrade my RT3.8.4 I've been using at my work place for the last 2
> years I installed a
> >    fresh virtual machine with a vanilla RT4 install. I like it and would
> like to use it for
> >    production.
> >
> >    I would prefer to import the data into RT4 than upgrade the existing
> 3.8.4.
> >
> >    I do nightly mysqldumps of the database and tar up the contents of
> >    /usr/local/share/request-tracker3.8, /usr/share/request-tracker3.8 and
> /etc/request-tracker3.8
> >    My question is : "It possible to run the upgrade scripts on the
> database and get the data in
> >    the new instance (RT4) without actually upgrading my 3.8.4?" or do I
> have to run the upgrade
> >    process on my 3.8.4 instance?
> >
> >    Maybe I missed it, I've struggled searching old posts - is there a
> step by step guide for
> >    doing this?
>
> Paul - I replied to this exact post on July 5th.
> Please look for my reply in the list archives.
>
> -kevin
>
>
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