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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=792240021-11082006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>For the 4.7 upgrade, i'd encourage you to view the
videocast at: </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=792240021-11082006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://drupal.org/videocasts/upgrading-to-4.7">http://drupal.org/videocasts/upgrading-to-4.7</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=792240021-11082006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>It answers many of your questions. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=792240021-11082006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>The basic answer for flexinode, is that if you install the
flexinode module on your 4.7 installation and then run update.php your content
should be intact. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=792240021-11082006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Regarding question 4, that's a really tricky thing to
do. I wouldn't advise advertising this to clients, and this is NOT
archival quality, but if you were REALLY careful you could create a database
backup, save it into the site files directory and then tar or zip the whole
thing up for transport to another drupal site. The following things would
have to be true in order for the import to work: </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=792240021-11082006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2> 1. The version of drupal being imported to MUST be
the same version. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=792240021-11082006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2> 2. The destination version of drupal MUST be on the
same database technology. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=792240021-11082006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2> 3. All of the modules that your using must be
downloaded on the drupal version. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=792240021-11082006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Otherwise you should consider satic copies of the site
using a tool like wget to build an archive copy of the static version of the
drupal site. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=792240021-11082006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Hope that helps. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=792240021-11082006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><BR>Dave</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> support-bounces@drupal.org
[mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Bruce
Whealton<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:03 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
support@drupal.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [support] Backing up, upgrading, moving
drupal install<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Hi all,</DIV>
<DIV> I've been away for a bit from the list and
now I'm noticing that 4.7.x is the latest version. Ok, I have some sites
that use 4.6.x. I'm wanted to figure out what steps would need to be made
to keep the content of a site and upgrade the install. Here are some
obvious concerns.</DIV>
<DIV>1) The modules are specific to a particular version, so whatever
content used a module with 4.6.x will cause problems. For example, I use a
flexinode content type. How can I keep content that uses the flexinodes
for 4.6.x when I upgrade to 4.7.x?</DIV>
<DIV>2) and other content that uses a module for 4.6.x what will happen to it
when I upgrade to 4.7.x? say I had a movie review module. what would
happen when I upgrade and no longer have that module available?</DIV>
<DIV>3) what do I need to backup and how should it best be done to make these
upgrades?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>4) If I wanted to give a client all the content and the install of a
site, on a CD, what steps would I take? what would I need to backup and
how? The goal would be to give the client on CD everything they would need
to keep the content and if needed install it elsewhere? </DIV>
<DIV>4a) What steps would be taken to one, backup everything and two setup the
site again from the backup contents?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>5) I want to do this with a writer's community site and poetry
magazine online. Where might I seek persons to share admin tasks for this
community, from among persons that know Drupal? Maybe a newsgroup, for
writers, or one for CMS users, might exist where one could request others to
join with me on such a website/CMS installation.</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks so much in advance,</DIV>
<DIV>Bruce</DIV><BR><BR>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<BR>Bruce
Whealton, publisher/co-editor/webmaster for -><BR>Word Salad Poetry Magazine
- join us online at:<BR>http://wordsalad.net/ and also -><BR>Bruce Whealton -
Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer<BR>http://trianglewebservices.com/<BR>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</BODY></HTML>