upgrade 1.0.6 => 1.1.4.1

[zebulon]

Hi everyone,

I have some sites running on 1.0.6 "Niihau" and due to a change of server-hardware (new machines coming!) I have to migrate from server A to server B. So far, I'm looking forward to this. 

My question now is the following: if I counted right, there are 5 versions to install, if I do them one by one. Now I would like to know if there is any better strategy than doing these one after the other: is there any shortcut?

cheers,
zebulon

[tsw]

get the full package.

you can always take the full package and run the upgrade script to get to latest version (well for 0.12 sites you might run into problems

[calguy1000]

we don't really support uploading from EVERY old version out there to the latest version.  usually if you're within 1/2 dozen releases you're okay, but no guarantees

MAKE BACKUPS BEFORE YOU UPGRADE

[zebulon]

@tsw & calguy1000:

Thanks for your quick replies!!!

you can always take the full package and run the upgrade script to get to latest version

Yup - actually, I came across this possibility some time before, but wondered whether there would be any limit as far as the number of versions to update is concerned...

we don't really support uploading from EVERY old version out there to the latest version.  usually if you're within 1/2 dozen releases you're okay, but no guarantees

Ok, true, thanks for this information. I'll try this first since it's the quickest way, right? 

MAKE BACKUPS BEFORE YOU UPGRADE

Naturally!  But thanks again for reminding: it's really essential!

Then: how about migrating from one installation to another on a new server. My idea is to install the latest version on the new server and then try a MySQL-Dump of the content-tables, i.e.

• content
• content_probs
• content_props_seq
• content_seq
• module_news
• module_news_categories
• module_news_categories_seq
• module_news_categories_seq
• module_templates

... and so on, depending on the used modules etc.

I would only empty the inserts of the new installation and refill those tables with the content of the 'old' websites.

Do you think that's possible?

cheers,
zebulon

[calguy1000]

To move to a new server:

Take your existing (working) installation
* Backup
* do a full db backup
* do a mysql import
* move the files over
* update the config.php
* clear the cache

[zebulon]

Thanks a lot, CalGuy1K!