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

[Volker Janzen]

Hi,

correct, I didn't make that clear. In case of a problem only downgrade the deb, not the DB.


Regards
    Volker


> Am 17.08.2016 um 22:13 schrieb Thomas Mieslinger <miesi at pc-h.de>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> there is no need to revert the database changes, pdns3.3 does also work with the pdnssec enabled schema.
> 
> Starting with 3.4 the pdnssec db schema is mandatory.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
>> Am 17.08.2016 um 21:45 schrieb 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>
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