Hi Hector, Thank you for your advice -- I will keep it in mind. We plan to upgrade over Easter when the libraries that we support will all be closed. I will take a full snapshot of the server (virtual machine) first so we can roll back if disaster strikes, and we already keep off-machine daily backups.
Do I still need to apply the "auto increment fix" in 18.11? Chris Brown On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 11:00 PM Hector Gonzalez <ca...@genac.org> wrote: > Hello, you should have a complete backup that you trust and know how to > restore. Both the database and the host files. > > Also, if the upgrade includes your database server, the upgrade may fail, > as the upgrade might turn mysql off and leave it off while other packages > -like koha-common- get upgraded, and koha-common requires mysql to be up, > in order to upgrade your database schema. Make sure your mysql/mariadb > packages are upgraded before letting koha upgrade. > > Other than that, it should be that simple. > > Hector Gonzalez. > > > On Mar 31, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Chris Brown <ch...@stayawake.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > We are currently running Koha 17.11 (installed from Debian packages) on > > Debian 9.3, and we want to upgrade to Koha 18.11 > > > > Is it really as simple as: > > > > sudo apt-get update > > sudo apt-get upgrade > > > > or is there anything else I need to watch out for? For example, do I need > > to take action to update the database schema? > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Chris Brown > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
