topic Fastest way to upgrade from 4.0.d to 4.2 in Alfresco Archive

Fastest way to upgrade from 4.0.d to 4.2

palma — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 07:10:22 GMT

Hi All,First, congratulations for the product and community. Really glad to use the product since 2012.However, I noticed that it is time to upgrade to 4.2 as it may include lots of fixes and changes.I'm reading a lot since yesterday and it still is not clear what is the simple way to upgrade a basi

Re: Fastest way to upgrade from 4.0.d to 4.2

bisana — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 08:29:00 GMT

Hi
I have done few up-gradation, I followed the following method
I have taken this from the forum post
http://forums.alfresco.com/comment/130430/


At the exsiting server:- 
    Disable indexing in the present system, stop and start stop, 
    Take backup of Alfresco installation DIR
    Take backup of DB
At the new server :- 
   Restore the DB
   Install the new alfresco installation (imp:-do not start the service) 
   copy the alf_dir of the old instance  directory to the new inststallation directory (Please copy only 2 directory named "contentstore"  and  "contentstore.deleted") (Do not copy other directory)
   start the new alfresco instance 
   You have now upgraded the instance without indexing 
   enable indexing at alfresc-global.properties 
  restart the service 
   You have a upgraded system with solr indexing enabled
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Re: Fastest way to upgrade from 4.0.d to 4.2

palma — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:45:00 GMT

Bisana, thanks for your reply.

How should I take a backup and then restore the DB? I dont know the password to connect to it. Is it just a file on the filesystem to copy/move or I should create a backup on a specific management tool like I do with Microsoft SQL?

Sorry about this silly question, but I am not used to non-Microsoft database and servers.

Re: Fastest way to upgrade from 4.0.d to 4.2

bisana — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 04:58:44 GMT

You will get the user name and password for the DB from "alfressco-gloabl.properties"