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[gerald thomas <gerald17006@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,
Bob, this is a different server from that which is located at the
national office or those at the regional areas.
If i am to upgrade this dhis server in steps from 2.6, 2.7, 2.8,
........... 2.15; where can i find these war files????

On 7/29/14, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Gerald
>
> Is this the server in the national office or one of the district servers
> (you can respond to me off list)?  My understanding is that Romain already
> went through the process of upgrading the old national database on the
> linode.  So what you are taking about now is something different to what
> has already been done?
>
> Anyway, the very first task would be to get a backup dump of the postgres
> database which is running on the standalone machine and the customised dhis
> 2.5 war file.  Then if you are deploying on a cloud server you might want
> to start by just replicating exactly what is there ie.
>
> 1.  create a dhis instance (using the dhis2-tools package)
> 2.  restore the backup database to the dhis instance database
> 3.  deploy the old war file which you have from the standalone.  (you can
> use the -f option of dhis2-deploy-war for this).
>
> From here you should verify that you have an exact replica running on the
> linode of what you had before on the standalone.
>
> Upgrading to later dhis2 versions is generally best done incrementally (of
> course from 2.5 to 2.15 is a long way to go).  But you are likely to get
> the best results by working through 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 ... etc.  Doing this on
> the linode with dhis2-deploy-war should be reasonably painless, with each
> increment taking no more than a few minutes.
>
> Before setting forth on this exercise it is also probably worthwhile to try
> and fix any inconsistencies and metadata integrity issues that might exist
> in the old database.  Getting rid of things like orphaned categoryoptions
> and the like at this stage might prevent issues arising as you attempt to
> upgrade.
>
> One big caveat ...
>
> I am a bit nervous to read that you have a customised war file.  Naturally
> these customisations will not be present in later stock versions of dhis
> that you upgrade to.  What you will need to do depends entirely on what the
> customisations are.  Can you give some more info on how the war is
> customised (and maybe by who)?
>
> Regards
> Bob
>
>
> On 29 July 2014 11:05, gerald thomas <gerald17006@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>> One of  your health unit in Sierra Leone has a standalone dhis2 server
>>  which is running on a customize war file version 2.5 and build
>> version 4995. Currently, they had decided to upgrade it and host it on
>> a cloud server.
>> Please can some help me with the procedure of upgrading this server.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gerald
>>
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Regards,

Gerald