Upgrading a REALLY old version of Alfresco

[major]

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 the current version (3.3?) I've looked around and everything points to the Alfresco wiki :

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/General_Upgrade_Process

We've got about 4 years of content ( > 200G) to be restored to the new box once online.

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.

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.

I'm casting shouts to the wind for any assistance that can point me in the right direction.

My configuration:

RHEL5, MYSQL HDB database, Apache Tomcat 5, Alfresco 1.4 configured for LDAP authentication, OpenLDAP 2.4.23.

Thanks in advance

Major

[mrogers]

You don't need "all the versions" between 1.4 and current.   However the jump between 1.4 and 3.3 is now quite big so it is sensible to upgrade through a few "hops".    Old versions of Alfresco are on SourceForge or can be built from source code.

Are you familiar with how to backup and restore alfresco?  Your first task should be to backup and restore your instance of alfresco to a test system so you can safely experiment with upgrading.