Community to Enterprise Upgrade Procedure
- Use the tool arangodump to take a backup of your data stored by your Community Edition installation
- Install the ArangoDB Enterprise Edition package (and start your Single Instance, Active Failover or Cluster)
- Restore the backup using the tool .
Procedure for an In-Place Upgrade
- Shutdown ArangoDB and make a copy of your data directory (e.g., in Linux, by using the cp command). If you are using a setup that involves several arangod processes (e.g. Active Failover or Cluster) please make sure all arangod processes are stopped and all the data directories in use are copied in a safe location
- Install the ArangoDB Enterprise Edition package
- If you are moving from version A to version B, where B > A, start arangod on your data directory with the option (in addition to any other options you are currently using). The server will stop after a while (check the log file of arangod as it should contain relevant information about the upgrade). If you are using a setup that involves several arangod processes (e.g. Active Failover or Cluster) this step has to be repeated for all arangod processes
- Start ArangoDB Enterprise Edition (in the same way you were starting ArangoDB Community Edition)