That would work, yes. You could also try to upgrade in place - the upgrade scripts *should* take care of everything between those versions, I think. Make sure you have a backup in any case :-)
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Machiel Richards <machi...@rdc.co.za>wrote: > Hi All > > Sorry for all my posts today but this one client is keeping me > busy. > > the version of MySQL installed on the ubuntu server is > 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.8-log as this was the latest one available in the > repository. > > We will need to upgrade this to version 5.1.53. > > Am I correct in assuming the following steps? > > 1. setup version 5.1.53 on the machine (different port) > 2. shutdown the current database. > 3. create backup file > 4. restore backup > 5. change port to 3306 > 6. startup new database. > 7. disable the old database so that it would not start > up during reboot. > > Regards > Machiel > -- Bier met grenadyn Is als mosterd by den wyn Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel
