Topic: upgrade 5.6 to 6.01.1 any how to

[wlu_lax6]

what kind of sport is this? i ve never heard about it and never seen it...
I like - football, tennis, http://findutil.freewebpage.org/ figure skating, extreme sports
Dislike - hockey, basketball, car racing, box and all the rest

[Tony O]

Ive just upgraded from 5.6u? (3 or 4, cant remenber) til 6.0.1 - But at the same time upgraded ALL hardware..

Tried to "Backup to Desktop", then fresh install of 6.0.1 on the new machine, and then a restore...

Worked perfectly EVERYTHING got restored, even my portforwarding - which wasnt a part of a standard 5.6 install... The only thing i had to reinstall was Sysmon..

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[Morten Hansen]

I just lost mu 5.6 SME server last week. I happened to install EzMLM mailing list. After which I ran into trouble on the WAN interface. I was constantly running on the capacity limit of my internet-connection. I fear that this package opened up some ports that made me open for SPAM relaying.

Any way I had to rely on a backup of the last good and safe config to take the system back to safe operations. I'm no guru - so I didn't have the tools to troubleshoot this.

This backup was faulty so I had to start over with a New SME 6.0. This was to become an immense task so I looked around on all my folders and disks for an older but flawless backup to restore. I found a SME 5.6 backup. But this made an inconsistent restore on the 6.0 box.

Hence I again had to go the 5.6 road... And now .... Success! So I am at SME 5.6 with data back from august 2003. This is OK as the changes since then are not significant. But I have numerous PHP-Nukes running, which are a pain to recreate individually.

I did not see success when trying to restore an 5.6 backup on my 6.0.

So I think I will have to do a proper upgrade to 6.0...

What about databases - 2 of the databases I had on the old system I recreated manually on the server prior to restore. These DBs are empty. A third that I did not care about has been restored by the restore-job. Can it be true that DBs are only restored if they are not present in MySQL beforehand????

Any thoughts?

Morten
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