[Pdns-users] Upgrade from 3.3 to 4.x?

[Volker Janzen]

Hi,

if you keep the deb for your currently installed version, it is possible to revert the upgrade in case of any problem. As far as I remember there are only additional fields added to the DB. I had no problems with the 3.x upgrades.

Of course you should make a backup of your configuration files before the update and also backup your database.


Regards
    Volker


> Am 17.08.2016 um 19:15 schrieb Thiago Farina <tfransosi at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 05:32:13 +0000
> Volker Janzen <volker at janzen.onl> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> you need to upgrade your PowerDNS version to 3.4 first, before you upgrade to 4.x. My old Debian wheezy based setup had already 3.4 will all MySQL DB changes running. I installed packages from repo.powerdns.com for Jessie.
>> 
>> I'm not aware that there are other upgrading instructions beside the one you already know.
> While doing more research on this, I found in https://doc.powerdns.com/3/authoritative/installation/
> that I could run be running `dpkg -i pdns-static_$version_$arch.deb`.
> 
> So I downloaded it with `wget https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-static_3.4.0-1_amd64.deb`.
> 
> Before I run the dpkg command, is there anything I should be aware besides
> doing the mandatory SQL schema upgrade?
> 
> -- 
> Thiago Farina <tfransosi at gmail.com>