Update from old hubzilla versiona

2019-09-21 12:18:26

Hans Sandmeier via Hubzilla Support Forum

hans@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

A friend still runs hubzilla 3.01 and now wants to upgrade to the newest version. Which is the best way for that?

- Just update first to the latest 3.x version, or simply jump to 4.4? -- will all the databases be migrated?

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2019-09-21 12:23:19

kris

kris@hub.libranet.de

This question interess me because I notice that we need to update every 2 or 3 month. That is a huge work. Is it possible to have kind of LTS version each year or 2 years like ubuntu.

Is it possible to upgrade from any version to the stable present version. (same question than above with my own word)

2019-09-21 12:52:36

ivan zlax

zlax@ussr.win

@kris That's a good idea.
LTS fork is the good thing to do.
Now works around 30 hubs on third version in the Fediverse:
https://the-federation.info/hubzilla
From 3.2.1 to 3.8.9.
If repositories stores all of the commits of this period - theoretically - it is possible to recreate the correct update chain for these hubs.

2019-09-21 13:04:46

El Dorado

mike@z.macgirvin.com

Just go to 4.4. Don't try and split it up.

That is a huge work.

You can upgrade at any interval that is convenient for you. Once an hour, once a day, once a week, once a year, whatever.

% util/udall

It's not such a huge work.

That's not to say you won't have a problem. Roughly one in ten people has a problem upgrading and despite our best efforts this number has been fairly consistent for several years. If this concerns you, you should have a backup strategy or an admin that isn't afraid of code.

2019-09-21 14:04:24

elmussol

elmussol@elsmussols.net

Remember to check all the database updates have been successfully implemented.

2019-09-22 14:12:03

Hans Sandmeier

hans@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Thank you all for your help!

After reading your comments, my friend updated from 3.01 to 4.4:
-- it took the whole night to convert the 15GB hubzilla mysql database, but:
-- it worked, now the photos and the posts and the connections are all there.

Great work! :-)
Only some little problems persist:
-- There is no carddav app any more, and I don't know where it went, and have still to tryout if the carddav server part still works.

2019-09-23 01:08:24

TerroX

terrox@cy.borganism.com

@Hans Sandmeier you could convert the DB to files at this stage, I'm not sure if DB storage of binary is good but I suspect it isn't.

See my post here for step by step, I just did this a few minutes ago.
https://zotadel.net/channel/support/&mid=b64.aHR0cHM6Ly96b3RhZGVsLm5ldC9pdGVtLzc5MWEwZTc2LWNiNmUtNDczYi1hNWY5LWE4YWVkZThlMzc2Yg

Can also find some usage tips in the file https://framagit.org/hubzilla/core/blob/master/util/storageconv

2019-09-23 09:32:40

Hans Sandmeier

hans@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Thanks, I will check that out.

Meanwhile, I realized some other problem after updating hubzilla: I can't upload any photos any more :-(

2019-09-23 09:45:42

Max Kostikov

kostikov@tiksi.net

@Hans Sandmeier Check your database update status. Perhaps some updates were not applied.

2019-09-23 09:56:20

Hans Sandmeier

hans@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Max_Kostikov:
I checked it under --> Administration --> "DB updates" and it tells me that there are no failed ones.

Is there any other way to check the status of the databases?