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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Migrating and upgrading


Migrating and upgrading from version A to version B or from Linux with MySQL to Windows with Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) for Redmine is not a problem, as long as you have the proper tools and know-how about your database and files.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have server administration privileges.

Ensure you are running migration or upgrade in a test environment.

Follow the recipe Configuring Backup and Recovery to make a backup and take a snapshot of your virtual machine if possible.

Here is a checklist before performing the upgrade:

  • Is your database compatible?

  • Are all required plugins compatible?

  • Is your operating system and web server version supported?

  • Is your Ruby and Rails version supported by the Redmine version you are upgrading to?

How to do it…

To successfully migrate or upgrade Redmine, here is the usual list of items to be migrated or checked after upgrade:

  • Redmine database

  • Uploaded files

  • Configuration files (migrated and/or updated)

  • Plugins

  • Scheduled cron jobs...