Updates Nethserver 7.9?

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Please excuse the question, I only follow the forum very rarely and may not be up to date.

Should the normal automatic update function of Nethserver 7.9 work and always download new updates? No updates have been downloaded to my machine for months. Is this intentional or a problem with my server?

Kind regards
Martin

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Hi,

Nethserver 7 is EOL and therefore there are nearly no updates anymore, except of the migration tool which can be used to migrate to the current NethServer 8, see also NethServer 7 migration — NS8 documentation

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Thank you very much for your quick reply.
Since I only use the mail functions of NethServer and only work with it part-time, the functionality of NethServer 8 is too powerful for me. It seems like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. I also wanted to continue using my existing hardware. If I understand correctly, I would need another machine for the upgrade. This means I have to look for a new solution that is the right size for me.
Best regards, Martin

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At first, this put me off too. Ultimately, I solved the problem quite simply:

  1. On my Proxmox Node, a second server is a complete no-brainer.

  2. For my servers with an internet provider, I simply booked a machine and made use of the 30-day special cancellation right. You can also book them for a month.

2.1 Set up a new NS8 server temporarily and migrate NS7

2.2. Back up the migrated, temporary server

2.3. Delete the old NS7 and replace it with a new NS8 server and join the migrated NS8 server

2.4. Restore SAMBA from the backup of the temporary server on the new NS8 server and replace the existing module

2.5 Move all (migrated) apps to the new server

2.6 Upgrade the new server with the moved apps to the master of the cluster

2.7 Remove the originally migrated server from the cluster, delete it, and cancel/terminate the temporary subscription.

But yes, an in-place migration would be more convenient.

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It’s an amazing guide @capote Could you please create e news topic here Howto adding some details?

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I remembered what I had done. But I no longer have a server to be able to trace and document this in detail.

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I don’t mean to insult, but this simply makes no sense. The fact that NethServer 8 is able to do things you don’t need it to do does not in any way affect its ability to do the things you do need it to do,[1] nor the ease of doing those things with it. If all you need is email, great–just install the email module, and no others. Problem solved. Just because you can install a webserver, or Nextcloud, or a groupware suite, or MariaDB, or whatever, doesn’t mean that you have to.

This will no less be the case if you migrate to any other OS–to the best of my knowledge, there’s no server software out there that can install on top of NS7 and migrate its users, software, data, and settings. No matter what, you’re going to need to install a new system, and then do whatever to migrate that information from NS7.

The key difference here between NS8 and anything else is that that migration is automated, for certain applications (including email), from NS7 to NS8.

But CentOS 7, and thus NS7, have been EOL and out of support for nearly a year, not receiving so much as security updates. That is not an OS that should be exposed to the public Internet.

  1. so long as one of those things is not the minimal firewall/routing features of NS7 ↩︎

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Just for (y)our information, nethserver7 updates are still announced on github and here:

But yes, EOL, few NS7 updates, no centos7 updates IIRC

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