Upgrading ListManager from v4.2.1 or Lower
If you attempt to upgrade 4.2.1 to 9.x directly, your data will not be copied correctly to the new database. To perform this upgrade, you must go through the upgrade process three times:
1. Upgrade 4.2.1 to 7.0.
2. Upgrade 7.0 to 8.9c.
3. Upgrade 8.9c to 9.x.
Note that Lyris Technologies no longer tests upgrades from versions 6.1 and earlier.
Previous versions of ListManager may be found here:
http://www.lyris.com/products/listmanager/archives.html
Be sure you read Important Upgrade Information and Preparing to Upgrade first.
Preparing Your Data
ListManager 5.0 and higher no longer uses FoxPro as its database format; see Supported Platforms for a list of databases you may use with ListManager.
We recommend you perform a "dbupgrade" before upgrading. To perform dbupgrade, stop ListManager, and open a command prompt. Cd to the directory which contains lyris.exe. Type:
lyris dbupgrade
Dbupgrade may take several hours, depending on the size of your data.
Be sure to back up your "db" directory (found in your Lyris directory) before upgrading.
Special Note: If you are upgrading from 4.x and using the embedded database MSDE, check the total size of your db directory. MSDE is limited to 2 GB for all its tables, so if you have too much data, the upgrade will not succeed. Your account representative can tell you more about external databases you can use with ListManager.
Upgrading without Moving ListManager
Be sure that ListManager is not running when you upgrade it.
1. Upgrade to v7.0: When running the ListManager installer, select "upgrade" instead of "new install", and provide the installer with the path where ListManager is currently installed. The installer will automatically copy the data if necessary and upgrade the database.
NOTE Upgrading the database may take several hours, depending on the size of your data.
2. Shut down ListManager if you started it after the installation.
3. Set your serial code on the command line with the following command:
lm serial yourcode
4. Run the ListManager installer two more times, first to upgrade to v8.9c, and then to v9.x. Select "upgrade" each time.
5. When the installation is complete, start ListManager.
Upgrading and Moving ListManager
Be sure that ListManager is not running when you upgrade it.
1. Install ListManager 4.2.1 on the new machine. Select "New Install" when prompted by the installer, and complete the installation.
2. Shut down ListManager if you started it after the installation.
3. Copy the db directory from your old ListManager installation to the ListManager directory on your new ListManager machine. On Unix, copy the /db directory to the ListManager /bin subdirectory.
4. To copy over your old data, open a command prompt, and cd to the ListManager directory. On the command line, type
lm copy2sql
This process may take several hours, depending on how large your database is.
5. Set your serial code on the command line with the following command;
lm serial yourcode
6. Run the ListManager installer two more times, to upgrade to v8.9c and then v9.x. Select "upgrade" each time.
7. When the installation is complete, start ListManager.
8. Go to Utilities: Administration: Sites, and edit any sites you have, so that the Internet Host Name field for each site is the name of your new ListManager machine. Also assign the IP addresses ListManager should use for SMTP and NNTP on each site.
9. Go to Utilities: Administration: Server: Server Settings: Machine Settings: IP Addresses, and specify what IP addresses ListManager should bind to for DNS lookups.
You're done!
More
1. Important Upgrade Information
4. Upgrading ListManager from 4.2 .1
5. Upgrading ListManager 5.0 or Higher
6. After Upgrading ListManager
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