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[Chris Hyzer <>]

Sounds like a good plan to me.  I assume you will schedule downtime, do this 
off hours, turn off the old WS/UI/etc before dumping, test the new one with 
the real data, decide if you are turning on the new or reverting to the old, 
etc...


Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Koranda 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:24 AM
> To: Grouper Users Mailing List
> Subject: [grouper-users] upgrading to 1.4.2 and moving to different
> host
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I need to upgrade from a Grouper deployment based mostly on
> 1.4.1 (includes some updates pulled from CVS) to 1.4.2, and at
> the same time move the deployment from one host to another.
> 
> My plan is
> 
> - deploy 1.4.2 on the new host, on top of MySQL, and add
>   some dummy groups and memberships to test that everything
>   appears to be working
> 
> - drop the database on the new host from MySQL
> 
> - do a mysqldump on the old host
> 
> - do a mysqlimport of the dumped database state into the MySQL
>   on the new host
> 
> Given that I am careful with the configuration details, should
> this plan work, or will there be issues with the database
> schema?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott