[Box Backup] Migrating - best practice?

Chris Wilson boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:05:17 +0100 (BST)


Hi Garry,

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Garry Glendown wrote:

> After quite some time of running 0.09, I plan on finally upgrading to 0.10 
> ...  what's the best way of migrating? Please note that there are some 20+ 
> active servers doing backups on the server  ... (mostly Linux, couple of Win 
> boxes)
>
> Would compiling & running the server with a different port be an option, in 
> order to be able to run the version in parallel, or should I just take 
> everything offline, then do all the upgrades and the re-run with 0.10? What 
> about the backup store? Should I start with clean directories, or stick with 
> the old files?

The recommended procedure is to run 0.09 and 0.10 servers in parallel. 
Unfortunately you cannot specify the listening port, but you can bind them 
to different IP addresses on the server.

Cheers, Chris.
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