Upgrading MariaDB to latest stable on Debian Stretch

danjde · 09-06-2021, 05:42 AM

Hi Friends,

I would like to extend the life of my Debian Stretch VPS, updating MariaDB to latest stable release.
My VPS serves: a mail server (user and password DB stored), a web server, an XMPP server ((user and password DB stored) and a Nextcloud istance.
Here I've found the procedure to add repositories, and here the upgrade documentation.
I would like to know if any of you have already experienced this procedure and what difficulties you may have encountered.

Many thanks!

Davide

pan64 · 09-06-2021, 05:52 AM

why don't you upgrade the full system? Did you make a backup? (can you restore your system from that backup?)
by the way, the actual release of mariadb is 10.5, not 10.2.