Soon I'll be upgrading from MySQL Community Edition 5.1.57 to 5.5.20 on a CentOS 5.7 server. I'm planning on doing a mysqldump on the server, uninstalling the 5.1.57 RPMs, Installing the 5.5.20 RPMs, and then restoring the data from the mysqldump.
Are there any special steps that I need to consider when doing the mysqldump and subsequent restore? The reason I ask is because I've tried restoring the 5.1.57 data to a MySQL 5.5.20 instance that I installed on my Windows PC and the only way I could get it to restore was by dumping and restoring the mysql database first, running mysql_upgrade, and then doing the dump and restore for the rest of the databases. Will I run into the same situation on CentOS?
Thank you.
Are there any special steps that I need to consider when doing the mysqldump and subsequent restore? The reason I ask is because I've tried restoring the 5.1.57 data to a MySQL 5.5.20 instance that I installed on my Windows PC and the only way I could get it to restore was by dumping and restoring the mysql database first, running mysql_upgrade, and then doing the dump and restore for the rest of the databases. Will I run into the same situation on CentOS?
Thank you.