topic Upgrading a REALLY old version of Alfresco in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/upgrading-a-really-old-version-of-alfresco/m-p/239725#M192855 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello. I'm in a bind and am hoping to find a little help. As this is my first post </SPAN><SPAN style="color:#4040FF;">EVAR</SPAN><SPAN> I'll try not to ramble. I accepted this position because I'm a linux fanboy and it was an opportunity to work with linux in an enterprise environment. I'm tasked with upgrading a RHEL5 box running Alfresco 1.4 to the current version (3.3?) I've looked around and everything points to the Alfresco wiki :</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/General_Upgrade_Process" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/General_Upgrade_Process</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We've got about 4 years of content </SPAN><SPAN style="color:#FF0000;">( &gt; 200G)</SPAN><SPAN> to be restored to the new box once online. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I looked at the wiki and if I'm correct, they recommend a simple install of 1.4 with running upgrades to bring the system current. Haven't been able to find all of the versions between 1.4 and current so I moved to another tack. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I considered a bare metal 3.3 build and subsequent restoration of the existing datastore but have had no luck in finding procedures to accomplish this. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm casting shouts to the wind for any assistance that can point me in the right direction. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My configuration:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>RHEL5, MYSQL HDB database, Apache Tomcat 5, Alfresco 1.4 configured for LDAP authentication, OpenLDAP 2.4.23.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Major</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:31:30 GMT major 2010-08-13T14:31:30Z Upgrading a REALLY old version of Alfresco https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/upgrading-a-really-old-version-of-alfresco/m-p/239725#M192855 Hello. I'm in a bind and am hoping to find a little help. As this is my first post EVAR I'll try not to ramble. I accepted this position because I'm a linux fanboy and it was an opportunity to work with linux in an enterprise environment. I'm tasked with upgrading a RHEL5 box running Alfresco 1.4 to Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:31:30 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/upgrading-a-really-old-version-of-alfresco/m-p/239725#M192855 major 2010-08-13T14:31:30Z Re: Upgrading a REALLY old version of Alfresco https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/upgrading-a-really-old-version-of-alfresco/m-p/239726#M192856 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You don't need "all the versions" between 1.4 and current.&nbsp;&nbsp; However the jump between 1.4 and 3.3 is now quite big so it is sensible to upgrade through a few "hops".&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Old versions of Alfresco are on SourceForge or can be built from source code.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Are you familiar with how to backup and restore alfresco?&nbsp; Your first task should be to backup and restore your instance of alfresco to a test system so you can safely experiment with upgrading.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:46:58 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/upgrading-a-really-old-version-of-alfresco/m-p/239726#M192856 mrogers 2010-08-13T14:46:58Z