Upgrading from kolab-2.0 to 2.2b3

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Richard Bos <ml at radoeka.nl> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I want to upgrade a system that is currently running kolab-2.0 to the last 
> availabe kolab version (2.2b3).  According the upgrade-20-21 document [1] 
> some changes have been made to database format (ldap and cyrus). As this is a 
> rather simple installation, only used for email and with only a few users, 
> would it be possible to just install the new kolab and import the emails 
> (email folders)?  If this is possible what is the procedure to save and 
> import the emails?
> (is it e.g. possible to remove the cyrus database(s), leave the actual emails 
> untouched and than after upgrading recreate the cyrus databases?

You'll loose the annotation information on the groupware folders that
way but other than that it should be fine.

For the LDAP db you should use slapcat and reimport the resulting ldif
file as described in the backup page on the wiki.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> [1] 
> http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/kolab/server/release/kolab-server-2.1.0/sources/UPGRADING.20-21
>
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> Richard Bos
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