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[Dan Pritts <address@concealed>]

I did an upgrade from 3.x to 6.0 but i was too scared to try the upgrade 
process.

I wrote some tools, they are described here:

http://www.sympa.org/contribs/migration_and_archives/danno/index

On Mar 9, 2011, at 9:19 AM, BJ Walraven wrote:

> I think you're looking for the upgrading steps when moving to another 
> server, here:
> 
> https://www.sympa.org/manual/upgrading#moving_to_another_server
> 
> Specifically, it appears you're missing:
> 
> - the /home/sympa/list_data directory that contains list config;
> - the directory that contains the spools;
> 
> Although you'll want to make sure you do all the steps.
> 
> That being said, I haven't upgraded from that far back, so I'm not sure if 
> a move from 4.0 to 6.x will be successful...
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> BJ Walraven 
> Messaging and Collaboration Systems Administrator 
> Eastern Michigan University - Division of IT 
> address@concealed 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mail Administrator, Otto J. Makela" <address@concealed>
> To: address@concealed
> Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 9:08:48 AM
> Subject: [sympa-users] Updating Sympa, do I need to become an expert?
> 
> I have a couple of old Sympa 4.0.a1 installations that desperately need
> upgrading, with about a hundred lists each. I've tried following the
> installation instructions for the new Sympa versions and was able to
> create a blank working installation.
> 
> However, I found that updating (since I really don't want to GUI in all the
> information for the mailing lists) seems to be a quite a lot trickier 
> affair.
> 
> I tried restoring a full dump of the old database and then running the 
> update
> script on it, before I realized that (at least on the older Sympa), the 
> actual
> mailing lists do not seem to be a part of this database. So, where are they,
> and why?
> 
> I'm sure all this is documented somewhere, but I haven't been able to figure
> out where. Unfortunately, I am really too lazy to become an expert on the
> internal workings of Sympa, but is it inevitable?
> 
> -- 
> address@concealed (Mail Administrator, Otto J. Makela)


danno
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