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authorAndrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>2009-12-01 13:03:17 +1100
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Upgrading from an older samba4 installation.
-For users of samba4 alpha 8 and after
-=====================================
-
* Stop any samba process
* Backup your samba4 provision:
go in the directory where your samba4 provision is stored (/usr/local/samba by default)
do tar cf $HOME/backup.tar private (it's also recommended to save the etc/smb.conf and var/sysvol dir aswell)
* Go in the source4 dir
-* run ./scripting/bin/upgradeprovision
+* run ./scripting/bin/upgradeprovision -s <path to smb.conf in samba4 install>
* do make install
-For users of samba4 alpha 8 and after
-=====================================
-
-* Stop any samba/smbd process
-* Backup your samba4 provision:
- go in the directory where your samba4 provision is stored (/usr/local/samba by default)
- do tar cf $HOME/backup.tar private (it's also recommended to save the etc/smb.conf and var/sysvol dir aswell)
-* Go in the source4 dir
-* run ./scripting/bin/upgradeprovision --full
-* do make install
+This will do the minimum (safest) upgrade of the data.
+Runing upgradeprovision with --full will do a more comprehensive
+upgrade of the data (including schema and display specifiers). This
+attempts to do a new provision, and to then copy existing data into
+that database.