On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Joseph Sayah <[email protected]> wrote: > Currently we have DSPACE version 1.6.0 and we are planning to upgrade > to the latest version, my question is the following: is it possible to > upgrade directly form version 1.6.0 to the latest version, and can you > provide me with the necessary documents of the upgrade…
Hi Joseph, I have just been dealing with the same issue myself and I would suggest that you follow Helix's advice about moving to a machine with the latest version of your preferred OS if possible. If you don't have that luxury then make sure that your server meets all the minimum requirements before doing the actual upgrade. Things that I discovered that I needed to bring up to date, on our RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 server, before moving to 3.2 from 1.6.2 were: * Postgresql - We were still on 8.1 and had to upgrade to 8.4. To upgrade we needed to export the full database, remove the old version of postgress, install the newer 8.4 version, initialise the database and finally import the exported database. (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/install-upgrading.html was very helpful when doing this). * Maven and Ant - just grab the latest binaries from apache and make sure they appear at the start of your path. * Java - while java 1.6 will work for almost everything if you need to be able to harvest from DSpace via OAI-PMH then you will need version 1.7 at least (also make sure that tomcat is using the 1.7 java and not an older 1.6 java). Definitely follow Helix's advice about starting fresh with the configuration files as there are a lot of changes to the structure them between 1.6 and 3.2. Some bits are broken out into their own config files and a lot of the config entries usualy altered have been pulled out into the build.properites file. Now the usual advice; Run through the whole upgrade on your test instance to make sure that you know what needs doing and in what order (Write it down as you go, so you can repeat it on your live server without forgetting a step); and finally make sure you have a full backup before you do it, just to be on the safe side. Regards, Jason Cooper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
