Upgrading from 2.7.6 to 2.8.1
Afternoon all, I'd like to upgrade our Zope/Plone/CMFPhotoAlbum/etc installation from 2.7.6 to 2.8.1. I'm having trouble performing the upgrade - I couldn't find any instructions on how to do it, and my attempt at a fresh install followed by a copy-over of the "var" and "Products" folders resulted in failure. Is there a document around that I've missed that describes what I should do? I'm also hoping that any help with this problem will indicate what the "important" files are in a Zope installation. This is because I need to make sure I have backups all sorted so that I can easily do a restore if/when the server goes bang. We're using Zope+Plone+others as our attempt at a new library, and so far the data weighs in at around 250 gig! The server is a HP ProLiant rackmount unit, driving a 8TB iSCSI storage unit, running Suse Linux 9.3 Pro. All the best, and thanks in advance, Kris. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ This e-mail is confidential and may be read only by the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not forward, copy or take any action based on it and, in addition, please delete this email and inform the sender. We cannot be sure that this e-mail or its attachments are free from viruses. In keeping with good computing practice, please ensure that you take adequate steps to check for any viruses. Before replying or sending any email to us, please consider that the internet is inherently insecure and is an inappropriate medium for certain kinds of information. We reserve the right to access and read all e-mails and attachments entering or leaving our systems.
--On 5. Oktober 2005 13:45:35 +0100 Kris Adcock <krisa@eurocom.co.uk> wrote:
Afternoon all,
I'd like to upgrade our Zope/Plone/CMFPhotoAlbum/etc installation from 2.7.6 to 2.8.1. I'm having trouble performing the upgrade - I couldn't find any instructions on how to do it, and my attempt at a fresh install followed by a copy-over of the "var" and "Products" folders resulted in failure.
"Failure" means what? Your description is pretty much useless without having details about your particular problem. -aj
Coyping across var and Products directories should be sufficient I believe. Have you packed the database recently? Rather obvious question but have you actually run "Portal Migration" (from the ZMI) ? ;-) If your Products use Archetypes you may run into Catalog errors. We haven't succeeded in migrating to Plone2.1/Zope 2.8 but that is due to other problems with Archetypes migration. If your installation heavily customised Plone's templates, this may cause problems due to Plone's templates having changed in 2.1. You'd have to re-customise the new templates. Hope this helps, Nick
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