From 4b9fc8768e18eac26862b83865c07ae39f3b633a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joas Schilling Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 16:25:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add ownCloud migration paths to the docs Signed-off-by: Joas Schilling --- admin_manual/maintenance/index.rst | 1 + .../maintenance/migrating_owncloud.rst | 33 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+) create mode 100644 admin_manual/maintenance/migrating_owncloud.rst diff --git a/admin_manual/maintenance/index.rst b/admin_manual/maintenance/index.rst index de3ef9b5e..ac018dc68 100644 --- a/admin_manual/maintenance/index.rst +++ b/admin_manual/maintenance/index.rst @@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ Maintenance manual_upgrade package_upgrade migrating + migrating_owncloud diff --git a/admin_manual/maintenance/migrating_owncloud.rst b/admin_manual/maintenance/migrating_owncloud.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2cabce51f --- /dev/null +++ b/admin_manual/maintenance/migrating_owncloud.rst @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +======================= +Migrating from ownCloud +======================= + + +.. note:: Especially when migrating from ownCloud to Nextcloud you should + create a backup of the config, database and the data directory, + in case something goes wrong. + +Currently migrating from ownCloud is like performing a manual update. +So it is quite easy, to migrate from one ownCloud version to at least one Nextcloud version. +However this does only work with versions that are close enough database and code-wise. +See the table below for a version map, where migrating is easily possible: + ++-----------------+-----------------+ +| ownCloud | Nextcloud | ++=================+=================+ +| 10.0.1 or later | 12.0.1 or later | ++-----------------+-----------------+ +| 10.0.0 | 12.0.0 | ++-----------------+-----------------+ +| 9.1.x | 10.0.x | ++-----------------+-----------------+ +| 9.0.x | 10.0.x | ++-----------------+-----------------+ +| 9.0.x | 9.0.x | ++-----------------+-----------------+ + +After downloading the correct version of Nextcloud from our +`older releases page `_, +proceed like described in the :doc:`manual_upgrade` manual. + +Afterwards you can use the Nextcloud updater to update your instance to the newest version.