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The computer that was running zoneminder died, not the drives but the motherboard. I have another server that I installed zoneminder onto, I do not know what release I was running on the old one. (Is there a place I can look on the file system to identify the version?) I copied all the files (events and images) and I copied the mysql database files, mysql started and I verified the data is all there and the login is correct. When I try to start zoneminder it just gives me a failed. Nothing in messages and I cannot find any log file. Nothing when I do a "zmpkg.pl start" on the command line. Both systems are Centos 6. I tried setting the env variables to start logging but again, nothing. Would anyone know what I can do to troubleshoot this? Is there a utility to check the database? Thanks!

kb9mfd wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2019 7:00 pm (Is there a place I can look on the file system to identify the version?)

Should return something like

Ok, awesome! that means my old version was 1.29.0.

Can the database be upgraded after the fact in this case? as where I already have 1.30.4 installed and I need to update just the database to that version? Or am I looking at something else? Zoneminder did start with a empty database so I assume the start issue is a database issue.

Nevermind! I found the upgrade script and it worked. Thanks!

With Linux you could have put the old hard drive in the new PC and it will run. Glad you found how to upgrade the database!

Yes,,, but the server is a Dell 2950 2U blade with RAID SAS drives, and was already running as a media server. Odd thing is its a octocore 3gz per core with 16gb memory and 3T of drive space. Old server was a old 2 core desktop somewhere around 2gz and 500mb software RAID, the old computer ran at a load around 6~8, but it functioned. New server is running at a load of 12 with the CPU at 98%. Odd its maxing out 8 cores. I only have 7 cameras.