[Spce-user] To Upgrade or not ?

[Dave Massey]

On 2013-09-09, at 2:16 PM, Jon Bonilla (Manwe) <jbonilla at sipwise.com> wrote:

> El Sun, 8 Sep 2013 20:31:01 -0400
> Dave Massey <dave at optionsdsl.ca> escribió:
> 
>> Hey all, I haven't posted here in a while, I am using the 2.6 version of
>> SPCE, and Im both unsure and afraid to upgrade it.
>> 
>> It works good. (apart from 2 occasions where kamailio has crashed).  I never
>> looked into why, my customers just wanted me to fix it. Im afraid upgrading
>> to 2.8 or 3.0 will break things. I have a couple of customtt files but
>> overall its not heavily modified. uhm, is there a way to just keep 2.6
>> upgraded? I thought I remember you could do that. I think I installed it just
>> as 2.6 came out.
>> 
>> 
>> Is upgrading safe? And whats the upgrade path? Should I be reading the 2.8
>> manual and upgrade, then go to the 3.0 manual and upgrade?
>> 
>> 
> 
> Hi Dave
> 
> It should be safe to upgrade to 2.8. The upgrade path would be 2.6 -> 2.7 -> 2.8
> 
> You would find changes in config.yml, more options in the admin panel and
> changes in cdrexport. Besides these changes, the system would behave more or
> less as you know it. 
> 
> Regarding kamailio crashes you can install the kamailio dbg package and send us
> the coredump traces taken from /var/cores (I think that was the path).
> 
> The upgrade should be safe. Just backup your db, cdrexports, customtt files as
> explained in the handbook. In the worst scenario you can download the 2.6
> installer and go back in time. 
> 
> There's no way to keep 2.6 upgraded as it's an EOL version. At the moment only
> 2.8 version is supported in 2.x branch and it will be for the following ~3
> years. It is highly recommended to every 2.x user to move to 2.8 (or jump to
> 3.x).
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Jon
> 

Ok thanks.  I backup the whole system every night so I can rsync the whole thing back just in case it goes really south.
I dont think I can jump to 3.0 yet as the system that its running is on is barely the minimum specs, only 2gb of ram.




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