Thank you Helen for your reply,

I'll do as you suggest and read the release notes (in order) and I may have
question after reading them.

Should I continue to ask all my questions in this thread or should I ask
each in a separate post?

For Instance, I do have a few questions currently:

1) The Character Set of my current database is NONE. Is this OK or should I
set it to something else? Or it this done automatically during the restore?

2) The database I want to upgrade is 25,231,544 KB, so I have a question.
Is it possible to do a metadata only backup followed by a restore of the
metadata only in 2.5.4 to see if there are any issues with Stored procedure,
Triggers, constraints, keywords, etc before attempting the full backup and
restore?

Thanks,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 2:56 AM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Migration Guide for Firebird 1.5.3 to 2.5.4

At 11:42 p.m. 22/07/2015, 'stwizard' stwizard@... [firebird-support]
wrote:

>Greetings All,
>
>Im needing to get underway way with preparing my Firebird 1.5.3 database

for migration to 2.5.4.

Firebird 1.5.3 to 2.5.4 is not a migration, it is an upgrade. Actually, you
don't even *absolutely need* to upgrade your databases to run them under
2.5.4. But if you have old application code, you are likely to bump into a
few problems if deprecation warnings have been ignored in the past. Our
guys have spent the past 15 years cleaning horse manure out of the Firebird
engine. And, of course, a, ODS 10.1 database can't take advantage of many
of the newer features that came for ODS 11.0, 11.1 and 11.2.

>Is there any documentation available that discusses what all needs to be

looked at before backing up the database in 1.5.3 and restoring to 2.5.4?

Yes - the release notes for versions 2.0, 2.1 and 2.5, all read in order.
Check the compatibility sections of them all. You will find that particular
documentation for v.2.0 and 2.1 in the same, separate document (Migration
and Installation Notes). You'll find all of them at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/release-notes/

>
>Possibly a migration guide?

You don't need a "migration guide", per se, because it isn't a migration.
But I did call it that for the jump from 1.5 to 2.0 and particularly to 2.1,
because the metadata character set changed from ascii to unicode_fss. Make
sure you read up on that particular thing, otherwise it will bite you. But
- tip - if you do a careful reading of the release notes, you will discover
that gbak restore has a switch so that your restored database will have the
metadata charset updated for you. If you have check constraints that
involve characters, you'll need both switches.

Do I need to advise you to make plenty of backups as you go? Most likely
they'll end up being redundant but then there is Murphy's Law.

Helen



------------------------------------

------------------------------------

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Visit http://www.firebirdsql.org and click the Documentation item on the
main (top) menu. Try FAQ and other links from the left-side menu there.

Also search the knowledgebases at
http://www.ibphoenix.com/resources/documents/

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
------------------------------------

Yahoo Groups Links