Below is my experience of migrating the nexus 1.9.2 to 2.7.0, this is my personal instance of nexus and if you are planning to do this on production environment take more caution.
Nexus had moved on a lot from the last version I had installed. I was forced to look at the migration as the Nexus wasn’t starting after the target box was upgraded to Java 1.7 from 1.6. I went through this link on Sonatype site to check (https://support.sonatype.com/entries/21701998-nexus-upgrade-notes) the recommended upgrade path and it seemed daunting and no where it mentioned you can upgrade straight from 1.9.x to 2.7.x. Anyway good news is I have managed to migrate my existing instance and here is how to do it.
– Download the latest version of nexus (http://www.sonatype.org/downloads/nexus-latest-bundle.tar.gz)
– Untar it and move it next to your old instance
– Stop the old instance if its still running crippled<img class="emoji" alt="