The MarkLogic 8 Installation Guide has a section for "Upgrading from Release 4.2 or earlier" (http://docs.marklogic.com/8.0/guide/installation/procedures#id_54482).
"MarkLogic 8 only supports upgrading from Release 5.0 or later; it does not provide a direct upgrade path for previous releases of MarkLogic Server. If you are upgrading from a 4.2 or earlier release of MarkLogic Server, either install this release as a clean installation or upgrade your existing release to the latest Release 5.0, 6.0, or 7.0 before installing this release. For details on upgrading a Release 4.2 or earlier release, see the Installation Guide <http://docs.marklogic.com/8.0/guide/installation> for MarkLogic Server 4.2. If you are upgrading from 4.2 and do not want to reindex your content, set the reindexer enable to false before upgrading. You can run MarkLogic 8 in either 4.2 or 5.0 compatibility mode, as described in Upgrades and Database Compatibility <http://docs.marklogic.com/8.0/guide/installation/intro#id_80903>." The MarkLogic 7 Installation Guide has a section for "Upgrading from Release 6.0, 5.0, or 4.2" (http://docs.marklogic.com/7.0/guide/installation/procedures#id_49978) and that appears to be a supported update. (See the steps in the Installation Guide.) Based on that, it looks like the thing to do is upgrade from 4.2 to 7.0-6.12, then upgrade from there to 8.0-6.7. -- Dave Cassel, @dmcassel <https://twitter.com/dmcassel> Technical Community Manager MarkLogic Corporation <http://www.marklogic.com/> http://developer.marklogic.com/ On 7/27/17, 2:41 PM, "[email protected] on behalf of Eliot Kimber" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >I have a backup from an ML 4.2 database that I¹m trying to restore to an >ML 8 server. The database configurations are (or should be) the same >between both servers and both are running on Linux servers. > >If I have the same set of forests defined on the ML 8 server as in the >backup then when I go to the restore screen it lists all the forests in >the backup but all their check boxes are unchecked and greyed out. If I >delete some of the forests from the ML 8 server then those forests are >selected and not greyed out. > >ButŠ > >When I proceed with the restore I consistently get failures like this: > >Operation failed with error message: XDMP-NOFOREST: >xdmp:database-restore((xs:unsignedLong("5211046837612715608"), >xs:unsignedLong("5138674030818805002")), >"/marklogic/backup/rsuite/20170726-1", (), fn:false(), (), fn:false(), >()) -- No forest with identifier 5211046837612715608. Check server logs. > >I¹m not seeing any other errors in the ErrorLog.txt log > >I didn¹t see anything in the ML 8 backup and restore docs that suggested >what the issue might be. > >The 5211046837612715608 value comes from databases.xml and I see a >mapping for this ID in the assignments.xml file: > > <assignment> > <forest-name>rsuite02</forest-name> > <enabled>true</enabled> > <host>14194071972761628339</host> > <data-directory>/somedir/MarkLogic</data-directory> > <updates-allowed>all</updates-allowed> > <failover-enable>false</failover-enable> > <failover-hosts/> > <forest-id>5211046837612715608</forest-id> > <forest-backups/> > <forest-replicas/> ></assignment> > >And there is a directory Forests/rsuite02 in the backup. > >Any idea what would be causing this failure? > >Thanks, > >Eliot >-- >Eliot Kimber >http://contrext.com > > > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >Manage your subscription at: >http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] Manage your subscription at: http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
