That would work, yes.
You could also try to upgrade in place - the upgrade scripts *should* take
care of everything between those versions, I think. Make sure you have a
backup in any case :-)
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Machiel Richards <machielr@stripped>wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Sorry for all my posts today but this one client is keeping me
> busy.
>
> the version of MySQL installed on the ubuntu server is
> 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.8-log as this was the latest one available in the
> repository.
>
> We will need to upgrade this to version 5.1.53.
>
> Am I correct in assuming the following steps?
>
> 1. setup version 5.1.53 on the machine (different port)
> 2. shutdown the current database.
> 3. create backup file
> 4. restore backup
> 5. change port to 3306
> 6. startup new database.
> 7. disable the old database so that it would not start
> up during reboot.
>
> Regards
> Machiel
>
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