[rt-users] Recommended Upgrade Path

[Iain Rae]

On 02/02/13 17:44, Camron W. Fox wrote:
> On 13/01/27 7:29 AM, Kevin Falcone wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 08:42:05PM -1000, Camron W. Fox wrote:
>>> 	We have been running RT V3.6.6 for the last five years, with no
>>> upgrades due to customer (and management) paranoia.
>>>
>>> 	We are now starting a new contract with the same customer, and a new
>>> installation is at hand. Clearly, we would like to run the up to date
>>> product, as V3.6.6 is now an unsupported release.
>>>
>>> 	Does anyone have any recommendations as to the best practice for an
>>> upgrade path to V4.0.9? We need to keep the old data, of course.
>> Have you reviewed UPGRADING-3.6 UPGRADING-3.8 UPGRADING-4.0 shipped in
>> RT4's docs/ directory and also available on
>> http://docs.bestpractical.com ?  They provide our recommended upgrade
>> path.  Step 2 and 6b of the README also lay out similar information
>> and pointers.
>>
>> There's also a blog post laying out pointers to the information
>> provided in all of those documents.
>> http://blog.bestpractical.com/2011/07/upgrading-to-rt-4.html
>>
>> -kevin
>>
> Kevin,
>
> 	As all of the equipment is new, I would like to, if at all possible, to
> install 4.0.9 from scratch on one of the new machines and import the DB
> data from the old 3.6.6 installation.
>
> 	I'd rather not migrate the 3.6.6 installation to a new machine and then
> have to upgrade to the 4.0.9 version on that machine. Seems like we
> should be able to simplify the procedure.
>

we've just done this and it was completely painless. Just follow 
Updating.sql. I think the only thing that wasn't automatically scripted 
was changing the table types from MyISAM to INNODB.




> Best Regards,
> Camron
>
>


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