I have received an old Nextcloud:
Ubuntu 16 ESM, Nextcloud 18, Apache2, php7.1, MySQL5, no containers. With good 2TB content.
That I want to upgrade to Ubuntu 22 LTS, with the latest Nextcloud, all in containers.
Is there anything to consider here?
I would proceed like this:
Backup Data folder and MySQL tables. Flatten everything, install OS, install Nextcloud 23 from Docker with MySQL. Stop Nextcloud, load SQL into container, reconnect data folder.
Or do I need to upgrade from version to version? NC18 → NC19 → NC20 → NC21 → NC22 → NC23
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Please also note that not all PHP and MariaDB versions are supported for the respective Nextcloud versions. So you can not install e.g. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a new server and simply copy your old Nextcloud 18 - version on it to upgrade it then. This will not work. You have to use e.g. older PHP versions in the meantime.
If you only want to migrate the data you can use also this way:
wait for Nextcloud 24 (because of PHP 8.1 in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS)
install new server with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and PHP 8.1 (default)
install Nextcloud 24
configure/create all users manually on the new Nextcloud
copy 2 TB content manually to the users directorys
use “occ files:scan --all” to import all files to the database/Nextcloud
→ you will lost all other informations e.g. all shares, contacts, …
Maybe this is an option for you.
Also you can create a new empty Nextcloud instance and all users can move their data on their own. Whatch this video. You need different names for your Nextclouds. They also lost all shares, contacts, …
Thanks, but this is the problem. This must not happen under any circumstances.
Then I would do the following:
I switch to Ubuntu 22
there I install Docker with MySQL 5.7+ [1]
Docker with php 7.4
upgrade from docker NC18 → NC19 → NC20 ->NC21
upgrade with docker 8.0 [2]
upgrade from docker NC21 → NC22 → NC23
[1] the manual says “MySQL 5.7+” (plus), can I start with v8.0 or v8.1 right away?
[2] the php version used by Ubuntu22 doesn’t matter to me since I’m using docker?