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- Stop all jobs in the old server, then terminate the server. Check that the checkpoint file was written.
Load the latest ecflow 5
Code Block module load ecflow/5new
Start the new ecflow 5 server with the same port. It will automatically read the checkpoint file that were created in version 4.7.X and above.
Code Block ecflow_start.sh -p <port> # Open with same port.
If you used the '-d' option for location of ECF_HOME directory(i.e. for checkpoint and log file, includes, etc), make sure you use the same location.
Code Block ecflow_start.sh -p <port> -d <dir> # Open with same port and -d dir as used for ecflow 4
For the very first use of ecflow_ui, then move aside the old .ecflowrc directory.
Code Block mv $HOME/.ecflowrc $HOME/.ecflowrc_old4
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