[support] Planning upgrade

[A-NO-NE Music]

Earnie Boyd / 2007/08/24 / 08:25 AM wrote:

>For an upgrade to production it is advisable to put the site off line 
>for a few minutes. 

Ha-ha.  I don't see how this can be done in a few minutes.  Thank you
for your response, however.  You are very helpful and I always save your
comments.

>I would suggest a network time protocol daemon for both hosts.  

I am sorry, but I don't understand what you are suggesting.

>For the 
>database you may wish to look at the importexportapi module or maybe 
>the excellent dba module.  

I don't have database backup issue.  Copying database between the live
and the staging within the live server is pretty easy.  I do this all
the time.

>For the file system you might look at unix 
>standards such as rsync.

I thought rsync also look at the time stamp, no?  I have got ChronoSync
which is a pretty good application, but turns useless when time stamp is
messed up.

>It's tough to realize that you've stabbed your own self.

The problems is I don't know how I stabbed myself.

>Have you considered using tar?

Do you mean uploading tar file?  Do I not loose the "Site-Offline" page
as soon as I expand the directory to overwrite the live directory until
I manually rewrite the settings.php?

By the way, there is one inc file I modified but I can't remember which
one.  Without proper time stamp, this is bad.  I was wondering if anyone
knows a good def GUI app runs on OSX10.4.  I actually don't know a
proper keyword to google this.

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- Hiro

Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
<http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>