Topic: Upgrading.

[bebran]

Hi,

I've been running a std. v.5.5 for home use on an old P-166/96MB machine for 2½ years and recently I got my hands on a 'new' dual P3-1000/512MB server.

How will I get around upgrading to v.6.5(final) on the new machine without smashing user setup and data (incl. MySQL data)?

regards
BBA

PS: I'm an occasionale Linux user - no need to tamper with running systems.

[mach1_4fun]

Hello,

If this is a prduction server I would move to 6.01 ASAP. I know there are some security issues with 5.5.
 
When I upgraded to 6.01 from 5.5 Here is what I had to do. A search will reveal alot of this stuff too

-backup
-do an upgrade from 5.5 to 5.6
-double check everything works
-backup again
-upgrade to 6.01
-perform the webmail password bug fix (Check the bug tracker)
-check everything is working
-backup again
if you are then moving everything over to a new hard drive, and its over 2 gig's you will need to rsync everything over to the new server. A search will reveal the fix, I don't remember the link off hand.