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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 9.x => Topic started by: RudiOnTheAir on November 15, 2015, 05:49:51 PM

Title: Upgrade running 7.6 to 9.x possible.?
Post by: RudiOnTheAir on November 15, 2015, 05:49:51 PM
Hi

I'm looking for a way to upgrade my running sme-server 7.6 to the latest 9.x release.!

I would prefer to get a new harddisk, bigger than the build in 500GB, and connect them to a free sata port to copy all to the new disk.

The system is serving files via samba and is the primary domaincontroller with 30 user. Thats why i not simply copy all data to the new disk and
install from the beginning.!

So my question is: Whats the offizially way to move a system to new bigger disk and do an upgrade at the same time..? I any...;)

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Ruediger
Title: Re: Upgrade running 7.6 to 9.x possible.?
Post by: DanB35 on November 15, 2015, 08:47:30 PM
To upgrade to SME 9, you'll need to backup, install SME 9, and restore--there's no way to upgrade in place.  That's the bad news.  The good news is, that takes care of the hard drive upgrade as well.
Title: Re: Upgrade running 7.6 to 9.x possible.?
Post by: gieres on November 15, 2015, 09:37:49 PM
Hello,

All is here :
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:9.0#Upgrading

Good night.
Title: Re: Upgrade running 7.6 to 9.x possible.?
Post by: RudiOnTheAir on November 15, 2015, 09:44:31 PM
... and that will also backup the account and domain settings. So i don't have to join all machines to the server again...??!
Title: Re: Upgrade running 7.6 to 9.x possible.?
Post by: Stefano on November 16, 2015, 12:07:01 PM
sure.. all the needed files to do a disaster recovery are stored into backup, meaning every kind of backup you execute on SME using default backup features (via console -> smeserver.tgz on an external disk or via web panel -> dar files)

in the first case you must use the "restore" function you will asked during first configuration, in the second you must configure the server (using the same hostname/domain), configure backup and then do a restore..

you'll find every needed info in the wiki