Hello That said, I believe you can do a fresh installation pointing to your external db, and after that, just restore using db-control.
Everything should work as expected. Sorry, didn't get time to check the wiki yet. ______________ Best Waldirio Skype: waldirio Site: www.waldirio.com.br LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waldirio On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 11:14 AM spaceywalkey <spaceywal...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your reply. Sorry but I forgot to mention that I'm migrating > from an external oracle database to an external postgresql database. Also, > I've already got the 2.4 schema on the existing oracle db so no schema > upgrades need to be done. > > Thanks for your time, > Spacey > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 1:53 PM, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro < > waldi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello > > I'm not totally aware of this guide, however, one plan that I believe to > be great should be > > 1. Do an online backup from your current installation > 2. Install the fresh one using embedded db (PG) "I believe you are > planning to use embedded". SW in the same version as the original > 3. Restore the DB using db-control > > After that, you should be able to see the entire content and your SW > should be working fine. After that, just the upgrade process as usual. > > Ps.: I'll take a look on the link ASAP. > ______________ > Best > Waldirio > Skype: waldirio > Site: www.waldirio.com.br > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waldirio > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:38 AM spaceywalkey <spaceywal...@protonmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> I need to migrate the spacewalk backend from oracle to postgres. I'm >> currently using spacewalk2.4 on oracle linux and I'm going through this doc >> for the migration: >> >> https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/DatabaseMigrations >> >> However, in the Prepare New Database section, I need to install and >> remove some rpms: >> >> yum remove -y spacewalk-oracle && yum install -y spacewalk-postgresql && >> yum remove -y spacewalk-java-oracle spacewalk-backend-sql-oracle >> >> Whats the suggested method for doing this? From the instructions, >> spacewalk will be down at this step. Do I download the rpms locally using >> yum-downloadonly? I tried that but it complains because >> spacewalk-postgresql and spacewalk-oracle conflict with each other and it >> looks like downloadonly won't >> >> Or maybe download the oracle linux spacewalk-2.4 rpms onto a different >> host? I'd prefer not to do this if there are alternatives >> >> Thanks >> Spacey >> _______________________________________________ >> Spacewalk-list mailing list >> Spacewalk-list@redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >> > >
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