Topic: Migration strategy

[DanB35]

After thinking a bit more about it, I came to the same conclusion and reported it earlier this afternoon.

[TerryF]

See Bug 9130 for details..upgrading from a SME8.2 to SME9.0

The differences between the SME8.2 dar and libdar versions compared to SME9.0 appears to be the cause of this issue, smeupdates-testing currently has new rpms waiting for release.

SME9.1RC1 has the latest versions so is not susceptible

So if you have a sme8.1 system updating to sme8.2 prior to doing a upgrade will be problematic if going to sme9.0 using the backup/Restore functions from the server-manager. Please NOTE this only affects the soon to be obsoleted SME9.0....

Upgrade to a SME9.1RC1 system is unaffected

Backups from the console are different and would appear to be OK from my testing to date

[TerryF]

Latest dar and libdar packages have been made avail for SME9.0 from smeupdates, these are defaults with SME9.1rc1

[root@sme90x64 ~]# yum update dar libdar

both dar and libdar need to be updated, just doing dar is not sufficient

See bug 9130 comment 32 for verification http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9130#c32