[pkg-firebird-general] [long] firebird 2.0 - and now what?

[Kai Bäsler]

Am 09.06.2006 um 10:28 schrieb Francesco Paolo Lovergine:

> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:50:47AM +0200, Kai B?sler wrote:
>> ...
>> Maybe we can help users to migrate with a little shellscript which
>> automates the backup/restore process?
>>
>
> Mmm, doing that at upgrade time could be _very_ error prone,  
> potentially.
> I personally avoid non-minimal changes to user data. A detailed  
> upgrade
> documentation is safer in many cases. A wrong assumption or a bug in
> an upgrade script could be extremely dangerous.
>
> -- 
> Francesco P. Lovergine

I agree. What i was thinking of wasn't an automatic upgrade-script. I  
think of some well-documented shellscript which could be placed  
in .../doc/firebird/examples. Or maybe a simple "daily backup"  
example for /etc/cron.daily. Something that does a backup from all  
(*.fdb) files from /var/lib/firebird2/data and /etc/firebird2/ 
aliases.conf to give the less experienced users a starting point.

The point is to have a backup in _transportable_ format when moving  
from 1.5 to 2.0, because the database file becomes useless when the  
ODS changes. So you have to do the backup while 1.5 is still  
installed. And an example script in etch could make it easier to  
actually _do_ the backup.

Don't get me wrong: this isn't meant to replace any documentation.  
It's just an enhancement.

Kai