Posts Tagged ‘sysadmin’

Upgrading Databases

Sunday, October 27th, 2013

In the middle of a large upgrade process to the home server.  Kind of a mess, but things are coming back up.

When upgrading databases, use the old, running version to make a DB dump BEFORE you upgrade the software.  I’ve just had to struggle with getting an old version of Firebird to run so I could read the databases.  Then, I had to do the same thing with PostgreSQL. (more…)