Upgrade Path for Old Version of Samba4

[Matthieu Patou]

On 08/01/2013 08:48 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 17:05 +0100, Mark Walker wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have asked the question before but as the project has been set back
>> due to usual office workload demands I shall ask again incase anything
>> has changed.
>>
>> We are currently running Samba 4.0.0alpha12-GIT-dbbbc7d and are looking
>> to migrate to 4.0.8 current. Is there any specific procedure we need to
>> go through in order to ensure data files are in the correct state for
>> the newer version?
>>
>> We are currently running the older ntvfs file server backend.
> I probably need to work with you closely to upgrade something this.  Any
> advise I have given in the past is probably still valid.
>
> The difficultly we have is that the best tool for this
> (upgradeprovision) we have retired for now, because we need more tests.
> Most of the issues are addressed by dbcheck now, but neither is
> complete, particularly with such an old release.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
Maybe a mix of upgradeprovision and dbcheck might give you what he 
wants, this needs of course to be tested in a cloned server.

Matthieu.

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Matthieu Patou
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