Topic: restore backup from 5.5 to a fresh 6.5RC1?

[AidansDad]

can I restore the backup I made from a 5.5 server onto new hardware which has 6.5 installed?  there aren't really any custom rpms installed, just e-smith-proxy-auth which I could uninstall after the upgrade to install sme-squid instead.

the backup is well under 2 GBs.  would there be any problem doing this? or would I have to upgrade first to 6.0 then upgrade again to 6.5, run another backup then restore that backup to the new server hardware?

[CharlieBrady]

can I restore the backup I made from a 5.5 server onto new hardware which has 6.5 installed?

Yes, should be OK.

the backup is well under 2 GBs.  would there be any problem doing this?

Shouldn't be.

... or would I have to upgrade first to 6.0 then upgrade again to 6.5.

I'm sure that database format conversion hasn't been tested right back to version 5.5, but it should still work.

[AidansDad]

can I restore the backup I made from a 5.5 server onto new hardware which has 6.5 installed?

Yes, should be OK.

the backup is well under 2 GBs.  would there be any problem doing this?

Shouldn't be.

OK then I'm going to give it a go tonight then and hope it works out OK