[AWIPS #CLA-119478]: RE: [EXTERNAL] [awips2-users] New AWIPS Blog Post: AWIPS 18.2.1-3 Software Release

Hi Pete,

Hope things are going well!

> Greetings – we are presently running 18.2.1-1 on RHEL 7.  Before we install 
> the new version we have some “protective” questions…
> 
> 1.  We wanted to confirm that the install of 18-2-1-3 via the install script 
> awips-install.sh of edex and cave will overwrite any modification we made to 
> 18.2.1-1   Examples, procedures, configs for lightning data feeds, menu 
> changes, etc.
>
> 2.  If this is the case, is there a recommended way to preserve these configs 
> before install (should we just “mv  awips2  awips2.18.2.1.1” and then 
> install? )
> 

If you follow the instructions as you did previously and download the NEW 
awips_install.sh script, and run that with the --server flag, that will backup 
all of your current configs and everything in /awips2/edex/data/utility which 
includes:
  /awips2/database/data/pg_hba.conf (database configs)
  /awips2/edex/data/utility (all menus, procedures, etc)
  /awips2/edex/bin 
  /awips2/ldm (edits to pqact.conf and ldmd.conf)
  /awips2/dev (you may not have this dir)
  /awips2/edex/conf 
  /awips2/edex/etc
  /awips2/edex/logs
  /usr/bin/edex
  /etc/init.d/edexServiceList
  /var/spool/cron/awips

You can edit the awips_install.sh script to backup other directories, comment 
out directories, or do your own backup. 

Note, in order to use any of the back-up files in the new build, you will have 
to manually make those changes. We can help if there are some changes from the 
new build and your back-up that you want to keep.

As the script runs, once the data are backed up, it will proceed with 
completely removing the old build of AWIPS and then install the latest build.


If you have both CAVE and EDEX installed on the same machine, install EDEX 
first. This will remove CAVE as well. Once the new EDEX is installed, you can 
run the --cave flag to install CAVE.

Please let uf know if you have any more questions. 



Thanks,

Tiffany Meyer
AWIPS Lead Software Engineer
UCAR-Unidata

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Ticket ID: CLA-119478
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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