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Question MySQL Upgrade 5.1 to 5.6 or 5.7?

Ryan van Brunschot

New Pleskian
Hi Folks,

For a long time im struggling now to upgrade MySQL on my Plesk Server. It runs on CentOS 6.8 and Plesk 17.0.17. For now MySQL 5.1 is installed, and i would like to upgrade to 5.6 or 5.7.

Without any loses and close all of the danger out.

Im a total noob in upgrading databases and with MySQL.

Thanks,
Ryan
 
I can confirm that I have successfully upgraded to MySQL 5.6 from 5.1 without any issue on a CentOS 6.8 VPS.

Stop MySQL
Get the repo & install then DISABLE 5.7 and enable 5.6
Yum update mysql
Service mysqld start

Run mysql_upgrade command once the upgrade is completed.
 
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