Upgrade from 0.8.8h to 1.2.1???? Out of the question or?

[hammondo]

Just how brave do I need to be? Long time Cacti user (going back to 2004 or so) but boy have I been out of touch insofar as to new releases etc. I see 1.2.1 resolves some vulnerabilities per US-CERT plus heck 0.8.8h is pretty durn old. Good news is it's been running smoothly all this time!

I did download 1.2.1 Windows .zip to our Cacti server which runs Windows Server 2012R2. Is there anything else besides copy files etc. also are there files I shouldn't copy?

Also lots and logs of kudos to this forum it has saved my bacon several times!

[netniV]

If you are using the Sources, you are going to have to make sure you get RRDTool, MySQL, etc. We are working on an updated Windows installer, but I don't know if that's been made available yet.

[bobbomo]

I upgraded from 0.8.8g to 1.1.33 with no issues, however, did not use the same server.

On a new Windows Server, I used the Cacti Windows Installer, restored the mysql backup over the new database, and then followed the wizard via the Cacti Post-Install shortcut.