Zabbix MySQL database migration issues

[justIT]

Hello,
I have been working on migrating an old Zabbix 5.4 server (hosted on Ubuntu 20.04) to the Zabbix 7.0 LTS appliance image. The new server was easy to setup and I was able to transfer data from my /etc/zabbix and /etc/php. I first ran bzip2 -dk "/var/lib/mysql/zabbix.bz2" | mysql...

[aby]

bs"d

Hi guys,
I need advice on how to upgrade my servers.

I have a server with version 4.0.0alpha5 and other agents with version 5.0.8 and 4.0.0rc3 the host OSs are Debian 10 and Ubuntu.
I want to upgrade the server and the agents to the 6.0 LTS.
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[vai]

Hello,

I would like to upgrade Zabbix Server from 4.2.8 to 5.0 LTS.

Zabbix server 4.2.8 is running on Ubuntu 16.04.6. And In order to upgrade to 5.0 LTS, we need to upgrade OS to Ubuntu 18.04. However if we upgrade OS then it removes existing Zabbix Server 4.2.8.
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[Pradish]

I am looking for some guidance and support on upgrading Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 with Zabbix version 4.2 installed.
This is in preparation to upgrade Zabbix 4.2 to 5.0

Looking at some posts, members have ran into problem when they did Ubuntu OS upgrade on exsisting Zabbix server....

[vascoleiria]

Hi

I just upgraded from wheezy to jessie and my zabbix installation just won't start
Since I have it is working on a VM, I restored it. Is there a walkthrough I can use to do this without have the zabbix crash?
Should I instead upgrade to buster?
I have Zabbix 3.4
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[QS-IT]

I am currently running Zabbix 2.4.7 on CentOS 6.7 (64-bit), updated regularly using the Zabbix yum repos.

Can I use these same repos to do an in-place upgrade from 2.x to 3.x, by adding the 3.x yum repos to my server?

I also understand that PHP must be upgraded to at least...

[jhoff]

Hi,

I've inherited a Zabbix server that has two proxies as well as of course agents running on a bunch of hosts. We're currently running 2.0.2 and I'd like to update everything to 2.0.5. Is there any particular order? Meaning for example, server first, then proxies then agents or does...

[mario.almeida]

Hi All,

If I want to upgrade from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3 do I have to take backups of database, config files and binary files?

[intouch]

1. Ubuntu / Zabbix newbie
2. I understand it best to upgrade but haven found any successful/straight-forward DETAILED instructions on upgrading.

3. I really appreciate any and all assistance.