is there an easy way to upgrade to 1.23?

cyrulution · Post by **cyrulution** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:41 pm

I got ZM on an Ubuntu 8.04 server machine running. I'd like to upgrade to ZM 1.23 without loosing settings or data. Is there an easy way?

shoetick · Post by **shoetick** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:11 pm

what version of ZM are you running now? The zmupdate.pl script will update your database while leaving your events and monitors untouched. make a backup of your database and your events dir (if possible) before hand. but everything should be fine unless maybe it's a really old version of zm.

cyrulution · Post by **cyrulution** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:17 am

shoetick wrote:what version of ZM are you running now? The zmupdate.pl script will update your database while leaving your events and monitors untouched.

I'm running 1.22.3 (the version I got from the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server installation with "apt-get install zoneminder").
Where do I get and how do I run zmupdate.pl ?

Post by **cordel** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:16 am

zmupdate.pl is covered here
But is basic as you just enter the version your upgradng from as an argument.

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zmupdate.pl â€“version=<from> [--user=<database> --pass=<database>]

And backup your database before hand and DO NOT START ZM untll after you are sure everything else is working correctly.

Lee Sharp · Post by **Lee Sharp** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:22 pm

If you installed with the deb from the repos, you can install Peters newer deb, and it will upgrade you. You may need to redo the links, and suid zmfix again.

cyrulution · Post by **cyrulution** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:02 pm

Lee Sharp wrote:If you installed with the deb from the repos, you can install Peters newer deb, and it will upgrade you. You may need to redo the links, and suid zmfix again.

Where can I find "Peter's newer deb". I haven't found it in "downloads" and the wiki.

Post by **cordel** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:53 pm

It's in the Debian unstable repos I believe.

cyrulution · Post by **cyrulution** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:58 am

Cordel, when I try your way with the zmupdate.pl where do I have to place the update files? and what update files? source?
I land at "no files found".

Post by **cordel** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:40 am

How have you installed the new version?
If from source then ZM will have set the proper path back to the source code for update.
If from another method, then I don't know.
Should work fine so long as you have not deleted or moved the source files.

Lee Sharp · Post by **Lee Sharp** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:46 pm

cyrulution wrote:
Lee Sharp wrote:If you installed with the deb from the repos, you can install Peters newer deb, and it will upgrade you. You may need to redo the links, and suid zmfix again.
Where can I find "Peter's newer deb". I haven't found it in "downloads" and the wiki.

The first link in "Other on the ZM download page is ftp://www.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder/ and I think you can find it from there.