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Topic: 0.9.7 installer

Hello,
I'm trying to install the 0.9.7 installer on a new machine so I can restore my backup and test upgrading to the latest version before doing on the production machine. I found the command to make the installer skip version check, but when it tries to fetch the source tarballs roundcube1.3.0, iredapd2.1, iredadmin0.8 from iredmail.org/yum/misc/  those packages are no longer available to download from that source.... is there a way to make the installer pull them from github or something else I can do to get this to work?

This is on ubuntu 16.04

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Re: 0.9.7 installer

Is anybody able to help with this?

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Re: 0.9.7 installer

Is it not possible to use the 0.9.7 installer??

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Re: 0.9.7 installer

Please use the latest stable release, 1.3.2.

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Re: 0.9.7 installer

ZhangHuangbin wrote:

Please use the latest stable release, 1.3.2.

But I'm restoring backups from 0.9.7.... won't there be issues with SQL?

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Re: 0.9.7 installer

You can't install now Ubuntu 16.04 and pretend to have the exact same repositories of 2 years ago.  Repos are changed and old software won't come back.

If you want an exact copy of your running server you should make a clone, but this is not the place to discuss that.

Official instructions says to apply updates when they are out. If you don't like that and you're not sure how to apply updates, you can buy a ticket from iRedMail support.

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Re: 0.9.7 installer

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But I'm restoring backups from 0.9.7.... won't there be issues with SQL?

iRedMail-0.9.7 won't work today, because it's years old and we removed old packages from our website.

You can setup a new iRedMail-1.3.2 server, restore SQL databases and mailboxes (e.g. with "rsync"), then apply SQL changes since 0.9.7.

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ZhangHuangbin wrote:

You can setup a new iRedMail-1.3.2 server, restore SQL databases and mailboxes (e.g. with "rsync"), then apply SQL changes since 0.9.7.

So if I'm reading that right..... I can restore my 0.9.7 sql databases on the 1.3.2 machine and then just go back through and reapply any SQL changes since 0.9.7?

I'm attempting to restore using the following command

root@mail:/media/usb/backup/mysql/2020/11/24# mysql -uroot -p vmail < vmail-2020-11-24-03-30-01.sql.bz2

but it's returning

ERROR: ASCII '\0' appeared in the statement, but this is not allowed unless option --binary-mode is enabled and mysql is run in non-interactive mode. Set --binary-mode to 1 if ASCII '\0' is expected. Query: 'BZh91AY&SY▒~LH'.

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Re: 0.9.7 installer

UPDATE:
User error, I didn't realize I had to decompress the bz2 files in order to restore them. After figuring that out, restoring my 0.9.7 SQL databases onto the 1.3.2 machine and then going back through and performing all SQL based updates since 0.9.7  as far as I can tell without putting it into production environment. All is working well. Thanks for your help and will now attempt again on the actual new machine I'll be using and putting into production. smile