Try it! Make a backup of your data files and load them on a temporary QA instance running 1.5.1.
It should work just fine. -Joan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Carr" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 7:13:58 PM Subject: moving all databases from couchdb 1.2.0 to 1.5.1 on different machines Hi all. I have couchdb 1.2.0 in production, with about 300 databases on it (one database per client). I've been playing around with a development server running couchdb 1.5.1. Both are on centOS amazon aws ec2 instances. My intention is that when the development server is in a production ready state, i'd shut down the production server, then spin up a new production server from the snapshot of the development server. I don't really want to have to do 300 replications, and re-do all the security documents, user stuff, etc to get the data from old to new. I was wondering if just copying the data files from production to development would work. I've read this to indicate it would be fine, but it's an old article: http://davidcaylor.com/2011/07/08/moving-couchdb-database-files-between-servers/ Is there anything I should be worried about, particularly moving between these versions? Is there a better way? Cheers, Daniel.
