Ah good point Mark... yes the old db properties are only need this
first time so that it can auto-migrate the old DB to the new one,
after that you don't need the old properties anymore.

Thanks Kevin!

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:57 AM, Kevin Doran <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Mark and Bryan. I will add a NiFi Registry 0.1 -> 0.2 migration guide 
> to include these steps as part of updating the site with news of the new 
> release.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
> ________________________________
> From: Mark Bean <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 8:53:39 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Upgrading NiFi Registry
>
> Thanks Bryan. There is actually another step not explicitly mentioned. At
> least for 0.1.0 -> 0.2.0, I needed to modify the nifi-registry.properties
> file as well. The 0.2.0 version has new properties/values not in the 0.1.0.
> And, I had to set the following for the database (using values from 0.1.0).
> This was only required on the first startup; these properties can be empty
> values on subsequent startups.
> nifi.registry.db.directory=
> nifi.registry.db.url.append=
>
> In the future, if using a database location that is external to the
> installation directory, is nifi.registry.db.url the only property that
> needs to be modified?
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:18 AM Bryan Bende <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> The database directory and flow storage directory are where all the
>> data are. By default these are created in the root of NiFi Registry,
>> so depending how you want to set it up you could move those
>> directories to the new install, or you could set them up to be
>> external locations so you don't have to move them every time, or you
>> could upgrade the lib directory of your current install and leave
>> everything in place.
>>
>> The policies are the same as NiFi... stored in users.xml and
>> authorizations.xml the conf directory, depending how you configured
>> everything. So just copying those two files over to the new install.
>>
>> -Bryan
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Mark Bean <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > How does one upgrade the NiFi Registry?
>> >
>> > After unpacking the .tar.gz file, how does one get all the flows
>> registered
>> > in a previous version of NiFi Registry into the newly installed version?
>> > And, how does one ensure all the policies transfer as well?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Mark
>>

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