[Freeipa-users] Upgrade from 4.1.4

[Prashant Bapat]

Great idea! Is that possible ? Any documentation on how to do this would be
very helpful.

Thanks.

On 4 November 2015 at 19:17, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:

> Martin Kosek wrote:
> > On 11/04/2015 10:27 AM, Prashant Bapat wrote:
> >> Ack. But in a live replicated setup wont upgrading from F21->F22 and
> >> F22->F23 take a long time. I mean couple of hours ?
> >
> > It will take some outage time, yes. But if you have appropriate number of
> > replicas and are upgrading one by one, you should be fine - the clients
> should
> > fail over to other replicas.
> >
> >> Are there any other ways to do this. Perhaps do a fresh install of F23
> and
> >> then restore data from FreeIPA 4.1.4 (F21) ?
> >
> > FreeIPA upgrade also updates the data themselves. Restoring old data and
> > configuration files on fresh F23 using full backup + running the upgrade
> may
> > work, but there may be also a lot of hurdles. It is not really a tested
> approach.
>
> Or he could one by one install a new F23 system and configure it as a
> new master to replace one of the old ones until they are all running F23.
>
> I'm pretty sure backup/restore only works within the same version.
>
> rob
>
> >
> >>
> >> On 4 November 2015 at 14:52, Martin Kosek <mkosek at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 11/04/2015 10:15 AM, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
> >>>> On (04/11/15 14:37), Prashant Bapat wrote:
> >>>>> Hi All,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We rolled out freeipa in our setup somewhere in beginning of 2015.
> Since
> >>>>> then there have been couple of new releases. Latest being 4.2.3.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The FreeIPA servers are installed on Fedora 21 hosts and at this
> point
> >>>>> there is no direct way of upgrading to 4.2.3 unless we also upgrade
> the
> >>> OS.
> >>>>> The COPR repos do not support Fedora 21.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Fedora 23 was released yesterday.
> >>>> It means then Fedora 21 will be out of support in a month.
> >>>> I would definitelly recomment to upgrade it to newer Fedora.
> >>>
> >>> +1. I did the same actually for FreeIPA demo which was also running on
> F21
> >>> before:
> >>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Demo
> >>> I had to do it in two steps: F21->F22, F22->F23.
> >>>
> >>> If you make sure that F22->F23 upgrade updates to freeipa-4.2.3-1.fc23
> or
> >>> later
> >>> (https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-4d94884a7e), it
> >>> should
> >>> work just fine.
> >>>
> >>>> If you do not want t upgrade so often you might use FreeIPA
> >>>> on CentOS 7
> >>>>
> >>>> LS
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>
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