I’m currently using RT 3.4.5. I’d like to upgrade it. I was
wondering if I should just go straight to 4.0.x or go to 3.6, then
3.8, and then to 4.0. What would you suggest?
Thanks,
Jaime
Network Administrator
Cairo-Durham Central School District
http://cns.cairodurham.org
I’m currently using RT 3.4.5. I’d like to upgrade it. I was
wondering if I should just go straight to 4.0.x or go to 3.6, then
3.8, and then to 4.0. What would you suggest?
Going straight to 4.0.x is fine. There are a number of important
database upgrade steps you need to do, so read all of the README and
docs/UPGRADING-3.4, docs/UPGRADING-3.6, docs/UPGRADING-3.8,
docs/UPGRADING-4.0 and docs/UPGRADING.mysql if it applies to you.
Thomas
Going straight to 4.0.x is fine. There are a number of important
database upgrade steps you need to do, so read all of the README and
docs/UPGRADING-3.4, docs/UPGRADING-3.6, docs/UPGRADING-3.8,
docs/UPGRADING-4.0 and docs/UPGRADING.mysql if it applies to you.
Thanks! As it happens, I did notice those files. I went looking for
“readmes” before bothering the list. Reading the files made me
wonder if I should do this incrementally, though.
Thanks, Thomas, for the quick and thorough answer. This is going to
save me a lot of time.
Jaime
Network Administrator
Cairo-Durham Central School District
http://cns.cairodurham.org
Going straight to 4.0.x is fine. There are a number of important
database upgrade steps you need to do, so read all of the README and
docs/UPGRADING-3.4, docs/UPGRADING-3.6, docs/UPGRADING-3.8,
docs/UPGRADING-4.0 and docs/UPGRADING.mysql if it applies to you.
Thanks! As it happens, I did notice those files. I went looking for
“readmes” before bothering the list. Reading the files made me
wonder if I should do this incrementally, though.
Thanks, Thomas, for the quick and thorough answer. This is going to
save me a lot of time.
No problem. Glad to hear you’re upgrading. You may also be
interested in
Upgrading to RT 4 — Best Practical Solutions which also
summarizes the things you should be aware of during an upgrade.
Thomas
No problem. Glad to hear you’re upgrading. You may also be
interested in
Upgrading to RT 4 — Best Practical Solutions which also
summarizes the things you should be aware of during an upgrade.
Thanks. I was assuming I should “mysqldump > backup.sql” just to be
safe. I don’t run it in a VM (I’ve used RT since before VMs were
fashionable), though.
Any thoughts on the mysqldump idea?
Thanks,
Jaime
Network Administrator
Cairo-Durham Central School District
http://cns.cairodurham.org
Thanks. I was assuming I should “mysqldump > backup.sql” just to be
safe. I don’t run it in a VM (I’ve used RT since before VMs were
fashionable), though.
Any thoughts on the mysqldump idea?
Yep, all of our documentation tells you to take backups. For backing up
a 3.4.5 database, you’ll want to use the --default-character-set=binary
option. See also UPGRADING.mysql.
T.