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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 22/12/2022 17:59, McLaren, Terry wrote:
> The process is outlined at: 
> https://www.sympa.community/manual/upgrade/move.html
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Terry McLaren
As a starting point, yes. But it doesn't get into details. We did a lot of 
these migrations. I hope can summarize that in the next weeks.

Regards

            Racke


> *From:* address@concealed <address@concealed> *On Behalf Of 
> *Widerski, Betty
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 21, 2022 9:41 AM
> *To:* address@concealed
> *Subject:* [en@sympa] Question re migrating to upgraded server - not upgrade 
> in place
>
> Hi –
>
> We have Sympa 6.2.64 running on a RHEL 7 server, where I have been working on 
> specific configs/customizations for some time. We have hired some Linux 
> consultants to configure two new RHEL 8 servers (for Prod and Dev) with the 
> latest Sympa version. Their plan seems to be to install Sympa 6.2.71b.1 on 
> the new servers, then move my customizations over from the 6.2.64 server.
>
> Everything I’ve seen about upgrading Sympa is for an upgrade in place – which 
> directory paths will/will not be overwritten. I know what changes I’ve made 
> in the default directory that would be overwritten, but to document all the 
> files in /etc/sympa that I’ve created/changed is not easy. And could result 
> in playing whack-a-mole trying to find ones that I’ve missed.
>
> Has anyone done this: build a new server with new version then copy files 
> from old server/version? Or would it be easier to have them copy/restore from 
> snapshot the entire current Sympa version to the new server and then run the 
> update on it in on the new server?
>
> Thanks
>
> Betty
>
> Betty Widerski
>
> Cloud & Server Engineering – HBS Information Technology
>
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