[support] Planning upgrade

[A-NO-NE Music]

Metzler, David / 2007/08/23 / 07:51 PM wrote:

>Yes take the site of line, primarily meaning to use the drupal admin
>menu to put it into maintenance mode.  They didn't mean actually
>shutting down apache or anything, but rather naviging to the Site
>Configuration and taking the site of line. You should see a link that
>looks like this on the administration menu. 

Yes, I know.  In fact I already made a custom page to replace Drupal
"off-line" page but I still do not wish to take it off-line.  I get
access from US, Europe and Japan so I don't really have any widow to
take it off-line.

>I use Cyberduck on my Mac to ftp synchronization.

Nice thing about Transmit is that it has emulation mode to run Synch
before action to make sure which files will be updated.  This is where I
see thousands of legit files being replaced.

>Steps I use for staging: 

Appreciate this very much.

>5. Check the site out so I know if there are database encoding issues
>that aren't related to the upgrade.... Ignore these if nessecary.

Not sure if I understand this.  What is the db encoding issues related
to the upgrade?
 
>6. Do the upgrade locally and make sure everything works. 

This is where I get stuck.  The documentation sez move entire directory
to backup directory, install 5.2 as if it is the initial install then
copy necessary files back from the backup directory.  My fear is I don't
think I know all the necessary files to be copied.  I don't remember all
the custom files and hacked module files, and the date stamp, which
could had been the only clue, isn't reliable at this point.

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- Hiro

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