Ah I'm with you now
Thanks Marcel that's good advice!

Cheers again
John


> On 5 Oct 2015, at 21:01, Marcel Schulte <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If you test the new version in a test site you may not find any problems - 
> which may appear if you do not simply use a new installed version but an 
> updated one. That's why I mentioned the possibility to copy your existing 
> site to a new name and do an "omd update" on this site to check if the site 
> does throw any problems after update ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> Marcel
> 
> Johnny Duane <[email protected]> schrieb am Mo., 5. Okt. 2015 um 21:56 
> Uhr:
>> That's ace, did not realise you could run multiple sites, on different 
>> versions, in parallel to each other
>> 
>> Only point I wasn't sure in your instructions though was 'eventually copy 
>> existing site and update this to check the update status'
>> 
>> Not sure what you mean by checking the update status on an existing site 
>> sorry?
>> 
>> Thanks again
>> John
>> 
>>> On 5 Oct 2015, at 20:28, Marcel Schulte <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Johnny, list,
>>> 
>>> you must differenciate between updating the OMD package and the OMD 
>>> site(s). OMD is designed in such a way that you can install many versions 
>>> in parallel - and even run several sites using these versions. That's one 
>>> of many benefits of OMD.
>>> 
>>> To update a site I'd normally do this:
>>> 
>>> * install new/another OMD version in parallel to the existing one
>>> * create a test site with the new version to check if the new version works 
>>> like expected ;-)
>>> * eventually copy existing site and update this to check the update status
>>> 
>>> ...and after finishing the tests, all following commands as siteuser of 
>>> existing site...
>>> * stop existing site (omd stop)
>>> * update site (omd update) to new version
>>> * start site (omd start)
>>> 
>>> That's it, good luck,
>>> Marcel
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Johnny Duane <[email protected]> schrieb am Mo., 5. Okt. 2015 um 20:45 
>>> Uhr:
>>>> Hi Marcel
>>>> 
>>>> I've never fully understood the Omd update feature?
>>>> I currently run omd 1.20 on Ubuntu server 14.04. Is my best upgrade path 
>>>> to install omd 1.30 on a fresh Ubuntu then import a backed up config from 
>>>> 1.20?
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> John
>>>> 
>>>>> On 5 Oct 2015, at 19:02, Marcel Schulte <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> OMD installations are never done "on top" of installed older versions but 
>>>>> more "in parallel". You may do but do not have to execute an "omd update 
>>>>> SITENAME" after installing a new version.
>>>>> 
>>>>> HTH,
>>>>> Marcel
>>>>> 
>>>>> Kris Lou <[email protected]> schrieb am Mo., 5. Okt. 2015 um 19:59 
>>>>> Uhr:
>>>>>> It looks like the RHEL/CentOS release of omd-1.30 is a separate package 
>>>>>> from omd-1.20, so not triggered via automatic yum upgrades.  Are there 
>>>>>> any issues with installing on top of an existing 1.20 system?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> -Kris
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Kris Lou
>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) 
>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 10/05/2015 08:53 AM, Marcel Schulte wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Stephen, list,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 1.30 can be downloaded from consol repository, don't know why Sven 
>>>>>>>> forgot
>>>>>>>> to update the omdistro.org page:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> https://labs.consol.de/repo/stable/
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Found that about 30 minutes ago, but thanks just the same. Got it 
>>>>>>> bookmarked now.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>> Stephen Berg
>>>>>>> Systems Administrator
>>>>>>> NRL Code: 7320
>>>>>>> Office: 228-688-5738
>>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>>> 
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