NE Upgrade Questions 4.5.6 --> 5.0.2

[uxbod]

Many thanks. Oh, good choice of RAID card aswell

[vandervyvere]

I moved Zimbra from a SuSE 10 box to Ubuntu 6.06.2

Install 4.5.6 follow the Disaster recovery Wiki. Network Edition Disaster Recovery - Zimbra :: Wiki
If machine name changed, the name needs to be changed in the ldap.bak file.
When restoration is finished reset the ldap and mysql passwd. There is a Wiki for that ass well. Resetting LDAP & MySQL Passwords - Zimbra :: Wiki

And then do your upgrade to 5.0.2... bob's your uncle.

Only problem I found is that the anti-spam needs to trained again.

[uxbod]

I guess you could dump the SpamAssassin database, and once upgraded restore it back.

[quanah]

Originally Posted by dwill

I knew that but thought I'd ask anyway - I'll combine the advice received and do the following:
Install 32-bit Ubuntu on new hardware
Install ZCS 4.5.6 (Same as existing version)
Restore data from old mail server to new
Upgrade to 5.0.2


Thanks for the help guys!

I would highly advise you upgrade to 4.5.11 before you upgrade to 5.0.2.

--Quanah

[dwill]

Originally Posted by quanah

I would highly advise you upgrade to 4.5.11 before you upgrade to 5.0.2.

--Quanah

Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc

From the title, It sounds like advice I should follow
Any particular reason?

[quanah]

Originally Posted by dwill

From the title, It sounds like advice I should follow
Any particular reason?

There were some significant changes to the OpenLDAP build between 4.5.6 and 4.5.7. Overall, you avoid a number of potential problems by moving to 4.5.11 before moving to 5.0.x.

--Quanah

[mmorse]

There were lots of LDAP & Tomcat changes made after 4.5.6, and while we test everything, just by very nature you're going to get more 4.5.10/.11 > 5.0.2 'tests'. ie: More users making that jump path because they were on 4.5.9/.10/.11 when they switched to 5.0.x

Don't know if you do, but if you have a LDAP replicas we highly advise at least 4.5.10 first, and better still is 4.5.11 see: LDAP Replicas 4.5.x to 5.0.x - Zimbra :: Wiki

Another good article I don't see linked to elsewhere in this thread that can be used for platform changes: /blog/archives/2007/10/moving_zcs_to_another_server.html
-Use the same ZCS version while doing the operating system change.
-Check UID/GID's.