Unity upgrade/rebuild

hi everyone
I have to upgrade unity 4.2 to 5.x over the weekend, Im wondering is it more straightforward to just rebuild it, keeping old messages is not important so I figured maybe a clean build would be easier?? Im not familiar with the process though so just wanted to check which was best option
Also Im going to take the server off site to rebuild and then bring back to site when finished, i will be rebuilding with same ip address etc but wondered is there any important information I need before rebuilding or should it straight forward to get the newly rebuilt server working with the original callmanager again??
thanks

Pretty much, if the stuff COBRAS does not backup is not something you really need, you can use the tool.
Otherwise it would mean building the new server with exact same version for DIRT restore and the upgrade.
All this is from the help file
Usage Scenarios
This is not a comprehensive list of uses but is intended to demonstrate the targeted uses of COBRAS in the field.
Straight backup and restore
COBRAS can be used for simply backing up all subscribers, call handlers, schedules, distribution lists, interviewers and routing rules and restoring them to a clean install of Unity or Connection after a failure. For just plain backup and restore scenarios where the version of Unity is not changing, however, DiRT (for Unity or for Connection 1.x) or DRS (for Connection 2.x and later) is the better tool since it’s faster and includes data COBRAS does not such as COS objects, name lookup handlers and holiday information. See the Data Not Backed Up section for more details on what’s not included with COBRAS backups.
Restore onto a different version or product (migration)
COBRAS is unique in that it can take backed up data from a Unity 4.0(5) and restore it to a Unity 4.0(5) or later system. COBRAS can also move from Unity to Unity Connection 7.0. There are, of course, some items that cannot go between versions and products given the differences in features and data structures across them. Be sure to review the details in the Data Backed Up and Restored section below to understand what’s potentially lost when going across versions or products.
NOTE: When restoring a Unity backup to another Unity installation, the version can be different but must be later than the version backed up. You can restore to the same version or later only, you cannot restore to an older installation of Unity. See the Version Support table below.
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"Den B" wrote in message news:9528356a-7e8f-45bf-9eee-30b40b5df4aa...
Some strange glitch has erased every single unlocked & unprotected file on my C: drive. It wasn't a virus because I checked autorun records and running processes using the respective Sysinternals utilities and didn't find anything suspicious.
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Just wanted to chime in to this as I ran into the same issue, and these boards have been a great resource in the past.
Here's what I attempted to do that didn't fix the issue;
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- Reverted back to iPhoto '09 (deleted iPhoto '11 from /Applications/, as well as deleted any reference to iPhoto in /Library/Receipts; I saw no references but took that suggestions from a previous thread here), then reinstalled iPhoto '09 via original discs. I was able to open the library as I wanted (pulled a library from a few days ago in a Time Machine backup to be safe), then attempted to rebuild in hopes that would help issue. Reinstalled iPhoto '11, but the same issue occurred.
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