[Opensim-users] opensim migration strategy

[Justin Clark-Casey]

John Hopkin wrote:
> Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> 
>> Ai Austin wrote:
>>> Thanks for the up to date upgrading notes. Its an important topic to 
>>> document well.  Will you add this to the Upgrading Wiki page?
>> It would be great if people could update the wiki page with this info.
>>
>>>> METHOD 1: If Using SQLite in StandAlone Mode
>>>>
>>>> 1. Build the latest version from source (or download the binaries)
>>>> 2. Put this new installation in a new folder
>>>> 3. Copy the following files from the old \bin to the new \bin
>>>>    3a. All *.db files
>>>>    3b. The opensim.ini file
>>>>    3c. The \bin\regions XML files
>>>> 4. Launch the new opensim.exe
>>> I see from my own previous upgrading notes that I also copy 
>>> over   "estate_settings.xml"
>>>
>>> Is this necessary, or will that be created automatically by 
>>> Opensim.exe and retain all the relevant information, previous region 
>>> UUIDs, etc?
>> Ah you're right - estate_settings.xml should go across as well.
>>> Perhaps someone could also check if "estate_settings.xml" is 
>>> necessary when using MYSQL in StandAlone and/or Grid modes too?
> 
> Curious.  I'm using MySQL in grid mode, and as far as I can tell
> estate_settings.xml not been modified by anything I've done since
> installation, yet its modification date/time is from around the time
> last night when I was changing terrain texturing details on one of the
> four regions. The height data associated with terrain textures,
> however, looks to be the default.
> 
> I've migrated the regions before, including a full reinstall when my
> HDD failed, and only copied the following:
> 
> - OpenSim.ini
> - Regions/*.xml
> - OAR backup (through save-oar)
> - MySQL backup (of opensim schema)
> 
> That went fine, and the regions were as I'd last had them, at least as
> far as I know.  The UGAIM servers are OSGrid's, the platform Ubuntu
> Linux 8.10.

Ah, yes there is a further wrinkle to this.  Back in r5525, Melanie put the actual estate data in the database (in the 
estate_settings table).  The estate_settings.xml now just provides default values if it's present (and should probably 
be renamed to something like estate_settings_default.xml).

Thanks for the correction.

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