Nexus Repository Migration

MIGRATING FROM 2.12.1 TO 2.14.5

Migrating from Nexus Repository Manager OSS 2.12.1-01 to the latest 3.0 version:

http://www.sonatype.org/nexus/2016/05/11/migrating-to-nexus-repository-3-easy-peasy/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba4VtpusRxo

beware: upgrade agent is part of 2.14 only! You should first upgrade to 2.14 then migrate to 3.0, as shown here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6qkj8UiSRY

Very detailed instructions here https://help.sonatype.com/display/NXRM3/Upgrading

Download old releases here https://support.sonatype.com/hc/en-us/articles/218238798-Nexus-Repository-Manager-OSS-Download-Archives

I have installed Nexus 2.12 here: /home/centos/nexus2/nexus-2.12.0-01/bin

cd /home/centos/nexus2/nexus-2.12.0-01/bin
./nexus start

The URL is http://localhost:8081/nexus/ (in 3.X it's simply http://localhost:8081 )



In maven's settings.xml I had this

  <mirror>
        <!--This sends everything else to /public -->
        <id>nexus</id>
        <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
        <url>http://localhost:8081/repository/maven-public/</url>
     </mirror>

this was valid for 3.5, in 2.12 the URL should be changed to http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/central/

I run a sample "mvn package" from "https://github.com/gabrielf/maven-samples" and I can observe that the repository "Maven Central" is filled with stuff: http://localhost:8081/nexus/service/local/feeds/recentlyCachedReleaseArtifacts, then I select the "Central" repo, "Browse Index" and I can see stuff in it (junit, hamcrest, codehaus...)

I want now to upgrade from 2.12.1 to 2.14.5 https://support.sonatype.com/hc/en-us/articles/213464198, which is the supported version to late upgrade to 3.5

I extract the 2.14.5 zip file in a temporary location and I copy the nexus-2.14.5-02 folder (NOT the sonatype-work folder!!!) to /home/centos/nexus2, so that the nexus-2.12 and nexus-2.14 share the same sonatype-work folder.

[centos@localhost nexus2]$ pwd
/home/centos/nexus2

[centos@localhost nexus2]$ ls -ltra
total 4
drwxr-xr-x.  8 centos centos  113 Dec 16  2015 nexus-2.12.0-01
drwxr-xr-x.  3 centos centos   37 Dec 16  2015 sonatype-work
drwxr-xr-x.  8 centos centos  113 Jul 25 12:39 nexus-2.14.5-02
drwx------. 33 centos centos 4096 Sep 10 19:28 ..
drwxrwxr-x.  5 centos centos   73 Sep 10 19:34 .

apparently the sonatype-work format is binary compatible among the 2.12 and 2.14.5 versions.

I stop nexus, make a backup copy of the conf folder:

cd /home/centos/nexus2
cp -R nexus-2.12.0-01/conf/ nexus-2.12.0-01/confBACKUP

apparently no further manual steps are required https://support.sonatype.com/hc/en-us/articles/213464338-Sonatype-Nexus-Upgrade-and-Compatibility-Notes

and now I start the new version of Nexus

cd nexus-2.14.5-02/bin
./nexus start

At a quick look, the content of the repository and an extra user I had created are preserved in the migration...

MIGRATING TO 3.5

Now I start nexus 3.5 side by side, on the same host, making sure I use a different number:

cd /home/centos/nexus3
grep -R 8081 *
nexus-3.5.1-02/etc/nexus-default.properties:application-port=8081

and I change that port to 18081

cd /home/centos/nexus3/nexus-3.5.1-02/bin
./nexus start

localhost:18081

things are working. I delete all pre-existing repositories

I follow all the steps as in https://help.sonatype.com/display/NXRM3/Upgrading and things work perfectly - using the "download" method (slowest)

I have tested the 3 methods and they all work, of course the file copy (hard link or not) is much faster than HTTP. If you wonder what a hard link is, read here https://askubuntu.com/questions/108771/what-is-the-difference-between-a-hard-link-and-a-symbolic-link