[support] Upgrading Drupal

Emmanuel Seyman emmanuel.seyman at club-internet.fr
Fri Dec 19 13:42:34 UTC 2008


* Daniel Carrera [19/12/2008 13:46] :
>
> If I am upgrading Drupal 5.9 to 5.14 do I still have to disable the 
> modules before the upgrade?

That's what the documentation says but it's a lot of work for little
gain. My procedure is :

When upgrading the core modules, do not disable nor upgrade the
contributed modules you are using.

Once you have upgraded Drupal and given your site a quick test run to
make sure it's still up and running, disable the contributed modules
you are using, update them and re-enable them.

Go through another test run and you're done.

> Should I be worried that data might get lost if I disable a module?

Hasn't happened to me, so far.
Always make a backup of your data, just in case.

Emmanuel


More information about the support mailing list