[SOLVED] Updating from ZCS 5.0.9 to latest

[Plurnay]

Hi after our anti virus stop working today because of clamAV 0.94 EOL
I want to update our ZCS from version 5.0.9NE to the latest version on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

I try to found so information on how to do that but couldn't found anything step by step...on how to make a backup and how to update ZCS

Thanks
let me know if you can help me

Plurnay

[Plurnay]

is the full backup using the administrative console is the same thing as copying the /opt/zimbra directory?

I really want to make sure I backup everything before upgrading to the latest version

[uxbod]

No it is not the same. Backing up /opt/zimbra will capture everything; whereas running one through the Admin console will save all the LDAP config, emails and blobs. I would suggest you run a full backup through the Admin GUI, then shutdown Zimbra and perform a full tar backup of /opt/zimbra.

[Plurnay]

Originally Posted by uxbod

No it is not the same. Backing up /opt/zimbra will capture everything; whereas running one through the Admin console will save all the LDAP config, emails and blobs. I would suggest you run a full backup through the Admin GUI, then shutdown Zimbra and perform a full tar backup of /opt/zimbra.

thanks uxbod

sorry about my ignorance but can you tell me how to shutdown zimbra completely and how to tar backup my /opt/zimbra folder

and from there... in the release notes it say you can upgrade straight from 5.0.9 to 6.0.6

Upgrade Process
The upgrade path to 6.0.x is ZCS systems at 5.0.2 or later can upgrade
directly to 6.0.x.
If you are running a version earlier than 5.0.2, you must first upgrade to 5.0.2
or later before upgrading to ZCS 6.0.
Important: Upgrades from ZCS 5.0.19 or later 5.0.x releases to ZCS 6.0.0 or
6.0.1 will fail. We recommend customers running 5.0.19 or later 5.0.x releases
upgrade to 6.02 or later 6.0.x releases when they choose to move to the 6.0.x
series. (Bug 42609)

so the only thing left after my backup would be to download the latest version and run install.sh

is that right?

[uxbod]

1) Create a new folder as root where you have space to backup eg. mkdir ~/zcs-backup
2) Change to that directory
3) /etc/init.d/zimbra stop
4) ps aux | grep zimbra (check to make sure all processes have died)
5) tar cf zimbra_backup.tar /opt/zimbra

You appear to be a NE client for which have you considered contacting Zimbra Support for help with the upgrade ?

[Baylink]

You may also want to read my account of this, while remembering that it is *so* not official that I can't even explain it to you:

[SOLVED] Here goes nothing...

And see also my older upgrade thread:

[SOLVED] Upgrade failing - 5.0.9->5.0.18

[Plurnay]

the zimbra folder was 69GB
and its been 6h30 the i am backing up the folder

with cp -rp zimbra zcsbackup

the folder is not over 100GB and still not done

Is this normal????

[Baylink]

You didn't actually *read* all of my postings, did you? :-)

Yes, copying that much data can take half of forever. Using AJ's rsync trick makes the copy process impact your downtime window *lots* less.

[Plurnay]

Originally Posted by Baylink

You didn't actually *read* all of my postings, did you? :-)

Yes, copying that much data can take half of forever. Using AJ's rsync trick makes the copy process impact your downtime window *lots* less.

haha sorry i knew I read before i didnt know it was from your post i was looking for the same post

thanks

[Plurnay]

After Updating this this the error I am getting....

root@mail:/var/log# tail zimbra.log
Apr 20 03:33:29 mail postfix/smtpd[8794]: connect from mail.redballinternet.com[142.166.48.148]
Apr 20 03:33:59 mail zmmailboxdmgr[9828]: status requested
Apr 20 03:33:59 mail zmmailboxdmgr[9828]: status OK
Apr 20 03:33:59 mail zmmailboxdmgr[9890]: status requested
Apr 20 03:33:59 mail zmmailboxdmgr[9890]: status OK
Apr 20 03:34:02 mail postfix/trivial-rewrite[10060]: fatal: open database /opt/zimbra/postfix/conf/relay_domain_transport.db: No such file or directory
Apr 20 03:34:03 mail postfix/master[28315]: warning: process /opt/zimbra/postfix/libexec/trivial-rewrite pid 10060 exit status 1
Apr 20 03:34:03 mail postfix/master[28315]: warning: /opt/zimbra/postfix/libexec/trivial-rewrite: bad command startup -- throttling
Apr 20 03:34:04 mail zmmailboxdmgr[10227]: status requested
Apr 20 03:34:04 mail zmmailboxdmgr[10227]: status OK