Update RT 3.6.7 and MW 1.6.10 on Red Hat 4 ES - QUESTION

RT Users
1

I got a task to update RT and MediaWiki to possible newest version.
It’s a little old release: RT 3.6.7 and MW 1.6.10 stands on Red Hat 4
ES.

I read UPGRADING-3.6 /3.8/4.0, UPGRADING.mysql, README and a few posts
about it. But I don’t have experience in doing backups, so I wanna ask
more experienced user, what solution you advise?

  • Install all on new system for example Red Hat 6.3 x86_64
  • Or upgrade RT and MW on the old machine

If somebody have some description how to make succes update,
step-by-step or something . I will be very appreciate.

Regards

2

Jan Niezbędny wrote:

I got a task to update RT and MediaWiki to possible newest version.
It’s a little old release: RT 3.6.7 and MW 1.6.10 stands on Red Hat 4
ES.

I read UPGRADING-3.6 /3.8/4.0, UPGRADING.mysql, README and a few posts
about it. But I don’t have experience in doing backups, so I wanna ask
more experienced user, what solution you advise?

  • Install all on new system for example Red Hat 6.3 x86_64

I would install on an all new system and import the old database and
then migrate according the docs.
If anything goes wrong: make dropdb and restart from step 1
This way you can test and test until you’re confident that you can do it
in x hours and bring down the old instance after taking a last backup,
restore that on you new one and upgrade it and test it and go to
production. This way you can even keep the old one as a reference copy,
won’t know why but its still there.

Good luck,

Joop