On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 17:49 +0000, Cena, Stephen (ext. 300) wrote: > I'm getting ready to do an upgrade from 4.0.18 to 4.2.1 here on two > servers. When I try the upgrade in a test environment, I get a bunch > of errors that fly by (I don't have them, sorry :( )
Get them and look at them. It may well solve you large amounts of time and data loss later. > but the site appears to be working. My question is, is it safe to do > a "fresh install" of 4.2.1 and then use the 'make upgrade-database- > script against the current database, use my current RT_SiteConfig.pm > file & spin up the site? That's the recommended set of steps to upgrade, yes. Though it was written for 3.8 -> 4.0, you may find http://blog.bestpractical.com/2011/07/upgrading-to-rt-4.html helpful. - Alex
