Topic: upgrading from 5.6

[haj]

Hello,

A customer asked me to upgrade its sme 5.6 to 7. Is that possible?

Best regards.

[CharlieBrady]

A customer asked me to upgrade its sme 5.6 to 7. Is that possible?

Probably (as I'm sure has been said before). It's an untested path, however.

[haj]

A customer asked me to upgrade its sme 5.6 to 7. Is that possible?

Probably (as I'm sure has been said before). It's an untested path, however.

I thought it has been said that it should be better to upgrade to 6 and then to 7 .... I search for 5.6 in the forums and it returned 0 results...

So I asked here to be sure.

[imcintyre]

Not sure what the usage is but one of the reasons to upgrade is to get antivirus. Can't imagine that the hardware that was used for a 5.6 install is going to perform clam antivirus scan very well. My P3 866 with 384 Mb ram takes 100 minutes to do 8 Gb. There are some other posts detailing long scan times. There are probably other issues related to old/obsolete hardware that I am unaware of.

Then if you are getting better hardware you can set everything up and just copy over what you need...

[CharlieBrady]

I thought it has been said that it should be better to upgrade to 6 and then to 7 ....

The 5.6 to 6 and 6 to 7 upgrade paths have been tested. But it's more work to do it twice. I'm not aware of any technical reason that you couldn't upgrade directly from 5.6 to 7.