[drupal-docs] Need another brain to edit How to Upgrade a DrupalSite

[Steven Peck]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: drupal-docs-bounces at drupal.org 
> [mailto:drupal-docs-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Richard Eriksson
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 6:43 PM
>
> 1. backup the database and files
> 
> I imagine a lot of people will skip step #1 because that's fairly time
> consuming if they're doing it over FTP.  Creating and maintaining a
> staging site is ideal, but probably not worth the extra time if
> you're, say, the administrator of a county-level political party
> website.  Each of the steps I outlined above have sub-steps, yes, but
> as written the upgrade process seems needlessly complex.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Eriksson

The documentation must continue to stress backups and creating and
maintaining a staging/test site.  Perhaps adding ominus warnings about
not having them before you start the backup process would help.  And
yes, I do expect the admin of a county level political party to have a
staging/test server.  Even if that staging server is his/her local
desktop.  If they are unaware of the importance of such, then the
documents should definitly reflect that.

There may even be election regulations abount backups of campaign
documentation but I wouldn't be the one to ask about that.