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Hi,

I am a happy subsonic user for the past few months. It is running smoothly from a remote Ubuntu server. I followed an install tutorial similar to this.

Now I wish to upgrade to 4.9 but I'm somewhat nervous as this is my first time. So before I screw anything up I thought I should ask:
Are there any particular issues I should watch for, or can I just install the new version over the old without disturbing my existing settings?

Any advice or pointers would be highly appreciated

Many kind thanks in advance

Shut down the service (sudo service subsonic stop), and backup the whole /var/subsonic folder first. I think you only need the /var/subsonic/db to save your settings, but I just do the whole folder just to be safe. That way if anything goes wrong you can restore all your settings and playlists and such.

Jut the reassurance I needed. Thank you very much.

Just stopping service, backaping, dont have to delete anything?


Aleza

Hi,

I just got around to updating to 4.9 on my server. Here's what I did:

1. Stop subsonic

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sudo service subsonic stop

2.Make backup:

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mkdir backups
sudo cp -r /var/subsonic/ /home/stim/backups/subsonic4_8

3.Download subsonic 4.9:

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wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/subsonic/subsonic/4.9/subsonic-4.9.deb

4. Install

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sudo dpkg -i subsonic-4.9.deb


5. Next I referred back to installation reference I used first, paying particular attention to permissions.
http://unlockforus.com/installing-subsonic-music-streamer-in-ubuntu-server-10-04-lts-lucid-lynx-2/

6.Re-check settings, inc ports...

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sudo nano /etc/default/subsonic

7. Re-start subsonic

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sudo service subsonic restart

I encountered one problem at the end and could not connect.
Although I had re-assigned the port, I could still only connect the default port 4040. Until I can find a fix, I stopped the service then restarted with the following command (assuming port 12345)

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sudo subsonic --port=12345

EDIT: Fixed it - it was a permissions issue!

Now everything is working as expected.

Thanks again for the reassurances.