Topic: Upgrade Path (5.6 single hdd -> 6.0 mirroring)

[Rob (Microtrader)]

Hi.  Is there an easy upgrade path from E-Smith 5.6 with a single hard drive to SME 6.0 with software mirroring?

Or would I have to do something like upgrade to SME6 on the single drive, do a backup, and restore that to a fresh install that has the mirroring setup.  Or would manual configuration of the RAID configuration files be required?

[Lloyd Keen]

Rob,
Probably the best solution is to upgrade the 5.6 box to 6.0 then backup and restore to the freshly installed (raided) 6.0 box. Be aware that if you have non standard add ons such as Hylafax that may be installed in /var or /opt that these will need to be re-installed.

[Rod]

i have just gone through this process as explained by Lloyd without a hitch but i do have a forum that is installed in /opt is there a way at present to backup the server completely for restore on the new server.i read that backup2ws is not working with 6 final?

Rod

[Nick Ramsay]

Darrell has a beta of Backup2ws for 6.0 in his contribs area - this sounds like an excellent way to stress-test it

[Rod]

cool thanks for that ill give it a whirl.
cheerz Rod.