topic Re: Upgratation wiki links does not say what to do with database in Alfresco Archive

Upgratation wiki links does not say what to do with database

bisana — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:31:35 GMT

I am refering the link for upgrading my instacne, in this document nothing has mentioned about what you have to do with the database at each instance.At points 4 and 5, they have not mentioned anything about the database. Should the old database be droped after taking backup and new one created, or

Re: Upgratation wiki links does not say what to do with database

mrogers — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:39:10 GMT

If you are casually upgrading, for example a dev environment, do nothing, just let alfresco update.

If you are being a little more paranoid and careful.

Back up the DB and restore to a new database/schema.

Let alfresco update your new copy of the database.

Then if anything goes wrong during the update you still have your pristine pre-update database.

By all means drop your old database after you are happy that its no longer needed.

Re: Upgratation wiki links does not say what to do with database

bisana — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:04:59 GMT

Hi mrogers
thans for the reply.
As for upgrading, I have to copy the old instance 'alf_data' to the latest installed alfresco. If I do this I will be getting error message in catalina.out becasue my database is not the corresponding to the 'alf_data'.
it is counfusion over here at this DB part.