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I recently upgraded and migrated a production instance of Confluence wiki. The task is interesting. The production instance of Confluence version 2.1.2 ran on a SELS 9 server with its ‘data’ directory NFS mounted. It uses external user management (CAS) with LDAP backend, plus a v8 DB2 database as the external database to store content of the wiki instead of the built-in suit-for-trial-only database. The new instance runs on RHEL 5 AS server with a v9 DB2 database.

My initial plan is to migrate the same old instance to the new data center, then upgrade whenever. Bossman overwrote the plan thinking it’d be a simple task to upgrade and migrate in one shot. Neither of us sees any feature in the new release as a deal-maker. I  guess common sense doesn’t always  win Read the rest of this entry »