Dear All, Bob, this is a different server from that which is located at the national office or those at the regional areas. If i am to upgrade this dhis server in steps from 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, ........... 2.15; where can i find these war files????
On 7/29/14, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gerald > > Is this the server in the national office or one of the district servers > (you can respond to me off list)? My understanding is that Romain already > went through the process of upgrading the old national database on the > linode. So what you are taking about now is something different to what > has already been done? > > Anyway, the very first task would be to get a backup dump of the postgres > database which is running on the standalone machine and the customised dhis > 2.5 war file. Then if you are deploying on a cloud server you might want > to start by just replicating exactly what is there ie. > > 1. create a dhis instance (using the dhis2-tools package) > 2. restore the backup database to the dhis instance database > 3. deploy the old war file which you have from the standalone. (you can > use the -f option of dhis2-deploy-war for this). > > From here you should verify that you have an exact replica running on the > linode of what you had before on the standalone. > > Upgrading to later dhis2 versions is generally best done incrementally (of > course from 2.5 to 2.15 is a long way to go). But you are likely to get > the best results by working through 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 ... etc. Doing this on > the linode with dhis2-deploy-war should be reasonably painless, with each > increment taking no more than a few minutes. > > Before setting forth on this exercise it is also probably worthwhile to try > and fix any inconsistencies and metadata integrity issues that might exist > in the old database. Getting rid of things like orphaned categoryoptions > and the like at this stage might prevent issues arising as you attempt to > upgrade. > > One big caveat ... > > I am a bit nervous to read that you have a customised war file. Naturally > these customisations will not be present in later stock versions of dhis > that you upgrade to. What you will need to do depends entirely on what the > customisations are. Can you give some more info on how the war is > customised (and maybe by who)? > > Regards > Bob > > > On 29 July 2014 11:05, gerald thomas <gerald17...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> One of your health unit in Sierra Leone has a standalone dhis2 server >> which is running on a customize war file version 2.5 and build >> version 4995. Currently, they had decided to upgrade it and host it on >> a cloud server. >> Please can some help me with the procedure of upgrading this server. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Gerald >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > -- Regards, Gerald _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
