[support] Upgrade from 4.7.2 to 5.10

[Victor Kane]

forgot to mention golden rules:

1. Backup your site first.
2. Perform the upgrade on a test site first

Victor

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Victor Kane <victorkane at gmail.com> wrote:
> The upgrade process itself (upgrade to latest 4.7.x before upgrading
> to Drupal 5.x) is safe and well documented.
>
> 1. http://drupal.org/node/36996 (Introduction to upgrading)
> 2. http://drupal.org/videocasts/upgrading-to-5
>
> You might, however, run into problems with modules you might be using,
> so you should read up on their 5.x state, and the upgrade problems
> others might have registered in the issue queues first.
>
> Victor Kane
> http://awebfactory.com.ar
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Ben Francis <mail at tola.me.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to migrate a web site from Drupal 4.7.2 to 5.10 (specifically
>> 5.10-1~bpo40+1 from Debian etch-backports).
>>
>> I imagine this migration might be quite painful, does anyone have any
>> advice?
>>
>> I'm wondering whether I might be best to start with a fresh Drupal
>> installation and semi-manually transfer the data from the old database using
>> a script.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ben
>>
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