Moving to a new installation (from 1.4 to 1.6)

[helio.campos]

Hi all,

- I'm with some problems. I want to move to a new version of zabbix (from 1.4 to 1.6) but the 1.6 is already installed in a different machine. How do I copy the information existing in the 1.4 to 1.6 and witch upgrades do I need to do? Is it better to upgrade the zabbix in the old machine to 1.6 then copy all the information to the new server?

Thanks

[MrKen]

The only information that needs to be moved is the database.

Depending on your flavor of db, you could just dump the 1.4 db, copy it over to the 1.6 box and then import it.

But don't kill off 1.4 until you're sure the new one is okay.

MrKen

[helio.campos]

Thanks MrKen,

- I did something better.
1) I made a dump from the 1.4 installation database;
2) I made a dump from the 1.6 installation database (for security);
3) I dropped the zabbix database from the 1.6;
4) I restored the backup done in the 1.4 installation in the 1.6 machine;
5) I runned the "src/zabbix-<version>/upgrades/dbpatches/1.6/mysql/patch.sql" script to upgrade old zabbix databases to the 1.6 version;

- So far it worked pretty well!!!

- Thanks again...

Regards...

The only information that needs to be moved is the database.

Depending on your flavor of db, you could just dump the 1.4 db, copy it over to the 1.6 box and then import it.

But don't kill off 1.4 until you're sure the new one is okay.

MrKen