Hi Karl, thanks for the quick response. We will try it then and report the results.
Regards Markus Am 20. Oktober 2014 23:55:16 MESZ, schrieb Karl Wright <[email protected]>: >Hi Marcus, > >The schema changes are handled automatically by ManifoldCF, so you do >not >need to start with a clean database. All you have to do is run either >the >new single-process example (or combined war), or the "initialize.bat" >script (for multiprocess deployments) after configuring properties.xml >to >point to your database instance. > >I recommend that you back up your database first, of course, but so far >I've not heard of any upgrade issues. > >Thanks, >Karl > > >On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Markus Schuch <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> Hi users, >> >> we plan to switch from mcf 1.1 to 1.7. >> >> Are there any resources that sum up an describe the schema changes >and >> backward compatibility for existing configurations? >> >> We have the the following questions: >> >> How are the schema changes handled? Is it necessary to start on an >empty >> database or can we just start 1.7 on the old database? If not, can an >> existing crawler configuration be migrated to the new schema? (e.g. >> migration path by using the import export feature) >> >> Many thanks in advance >> Markus
