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Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

sp2 — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 04:45:13 GMT

Hi,

I want to upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6. 0, What Step I have to follow?

Steps given in https://docs.alfresco.com/6.0/tasks/upgrade-process.html is enough to proceed?

The code customization is in sdk2(5.0) so for that what steps I have to follow?

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

kintu_barot — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 04:52:21 GMT

Hi Sanjay,

- Install the Alfresco 6.0 first and do not start it.

- Take a dump of database of 5.0

- Point to the alf_data folder of 5.0 by making changes in the alfresco-global.properties file in 6.0

- Restore the dump to 6.0

- start the 6.0 server check whether the contents and other properties are properly working or not.

- Try to apply the customizations - (This may require little changes in your custom code)

- If they are working well then you're lucky else you might need to prepare your package using compatible sdk.

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

angelborroy — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 08:24:53 GMT

Some other considerations when upgrading to Alfresco 6 are described in https://www.slideshare.net/angelborroy/2019-dev-con115angelborroy

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

dba100 — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 09:15:15 GMT

hi,

how about we are running old 5.0 and want to upgrade to v 6.2, what is the stable/offical upgrade path?

for 5.0 - 6,2, which version allow the separation between Alfresco and PostgreSQL? it will be much stable in this way ?

any tools to migrate PostgreSQL bundled in 5.0 to another PostgreSQL in another server?

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

EddieMay — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 10:16:35 GMT

Hi @dba100

Alfresco doesn't provide any tools to migrate PostgreSQL to another server or edition.

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

dba100 — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 04:19:44 GMT

hi,

So this means for community edition, Alfresco and PostgreSQL must be in the SAME box in community edition?

the point now is, we are using v 5.0 community edition and it is unstable all the time, so even we upgrade we can only run on that SAME box we run v 5.0 ?

May I know:

1) any way to check which cause slow ? what troubleshooting tools is recommended?

2) we can't upgrade directly from 5.0 to 6.2, right ? must be first upgrade from 5.0 to 5.2 , then 5.2 ot 6.2?

where can we download 5.2 ? https://sourceforge.net/projects/alfresco/files/ ?

uprade path: https://docs.alfresco.com/content-services/latest/upgrade/ is correct ?

3) from 5.0 to 5.2 , what is the need to know , known issue, and procedure to upgrade?

4) What is the version of PostgreSQL once we upgrade from 5.0 to 5.2 and 5.2 to 6.2 ? I assume the PostgreSQL upgraded will have nothing lost ?

5) what OS is recommended for Alfresco

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

EddieMay — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:39:49 GMT

Hi @dba100

1) PostrgreSQL can be installed on a different server - this blog post, altho old & relating to 5.0, shows how. See here too.

2) OS - linux is the most commonly used.

3) Troubleshooting - quite old but useful information. This see DevCon slidedeck.

HTH,

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

dba100 — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:32:41 GMT

hi.

tks.

2) So we can't upgrade directly from 5.0 to 6.2, right ? must be first upgrade from 5.0 to 5.2 , then 5.2 ot 6.2?

3) Any offical guide on how to upgrade from 5.0 to 5.2 , what is the need to know , known issue, and procedure to

upgrade?4) What is the version of PostgreSQL once we upgrade from 5.0 to 5.2 and 5.2 to 6.2 ? I assume the PostgreSQL upgraded will have nothing lost ?

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

dba100 — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 09:19:24 GMT

hi,

what kind of linux and Windows is recommended for Alfresco ?

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

EddieMay — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:19:14 GMT

Hi @dba100

Take a look at the supported platforms.

HTH,

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

dba100 — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 03:22:25 GMT

hi,

it seems this platform can be run on MySQL 8 too ? no tools from Alfresco to migrate data from PostgreSQL to MySQL and make sure once data and table migrated, alfresco will work immediately ?

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

dba100 — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 03:30:28 GMT

"Take a look at the supported platforms."

how about percona pxc ? percona pxc actually MariaDB with percona tools!

How about we use MariaDB galeria cluster? so we aan scale out the DB tier ?

by this sense we dont' have to pay for the additional DB tier too ?

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

EddieMay — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:52:02 GMT

Hi @dba100

I suppose some of these might be possible but are not supported OOTB. There are obviously limits to the number and type of DB options any software project is able to support. That said, I'm sure you could find others to help support your efforts if you started a project to enable percona pxc support for Alfresco Community Edition.

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

dba100 — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 02:21:27 GMT

"I suppose some of these might be possible but are not supported OOTB."

sorry, what is OOTB?

"There are obviously limits to the number and type of DB options any software project is able to support."

I am very ok on this.

"I'm sure you could find others to help support your efforts if you started a project to enable percona pxc support for Alfresco Community Edition."

you mean a SI vendor? any procedure or instruction on how to set it up in MySQL / MariaDB?

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

EddieMay — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:06:24 GMT

Hi @dba100

Sorry - OOTB = "out of the box" = does not come with the software.

No, not an SI vendor - I meant that if you required a specific setup - such as "MariaDB galeria cluster" - that if you started an open source project to add that capability to Alfresco, then perhaps others would be able to help you.

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

dba100 — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:49:09 GMT

hi,

tks.

but we will setup mariaDB ourselves if it is possible! any doc to show us how to setup Alfresco on mariaDB ?

a guide to:

1) how to allow all new content to mariaDB in another box.

2) migrate existing postgreSQL to the new mariaDB

3) any Alfresco backup and restore after all new content goes to mariaDB DB?

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

dba100 — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 08:01:18 GMT

Can Alfresco community 6.0/6.2 run on top of MariaDB community edition ?

I am not sure if the Software has to run on top of MariaDB enterprise edition ?

can Alfresco community 5.2/6.2 run on top of SQL server 2016-2019 standard or enterprise edition ?

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

EddieMay — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:35:54 GMT

Hi @dba100

Alfresco Community Edition can be configured to use Maria DB.

No, Community Edition can not run against SQL Server. The Enterprise ACS can use SQL Server.

Regards,

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

dba100 — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:56:09 GMT

hi,.

tks

so it doesn't matter it is a MySQL innodB cluster or Maria Galeria cluster?

can both platform runs on Windows server 2019 and still stable ?

Re: Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

EddieMay — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 09:46:15 GMT

Hi @dba100

Community Edition doesn't support clustering OOTB.

Enterprise supported platforms information is here. ACS 7 supports Window server 2019.