Upgrade alfresco 5.0 to 6.0

[sanjaybandhaniya]

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?

[kintu_barot · Accepted solution]

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.

[kintu_barot · Accepted solution]

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.

[angelborroy · Accepted solution]

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

[dba100]

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? 

[EddieMay]

Hi @dba100 

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

[dba100]

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 

[EddieMay]

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,

[dba100]

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 ? 

[dba100]

hi,

what kind of linux and Windows is recommended for Alfresco ?

[EddieMay]

Hi @dba100 

Take a look at the supported platforms.

HTH,