[support] Planning upgrade

[Cog Rusty]

On 8/25/07, A-NO-NE Music <madflute at anonemusic.com> wrote:
> Earnie Boyd / 2007/08/24 / 08:25 AM wrote:
>
> >For an upgrade to production it is advisable to put the site off line
> >for a few minutes.
>
> Ha-ha.  I don't see how this can be done in a few minutes.  Thank you
> for your response, however.  You are very helpful and I always save your
> comments.


There may be ways. If it is not a community site continuously updated
by the users, you could upgrade a copy in a subdomain, using a
different database, and take the site off-line as long as it takes to
move the files and to load the updated database.


> >I would suggest a network time protocol daemon for both hosts.
>
> I am sorry, but I don't understand what you are suggesting.
>
> >For the
> >database you may wish to look at the importexportapi module or maybe
> >the excellent dba module.
>
> I don't have database backup issue.  Copying database between the live
> and the staging within the live server is pretty easy.  I do this all
> the time.
>
> >For the file system you might look at unix
> >standards such as rsync.
>
> I thought rsync also look at the time stamp, no?  I have got ChronoSync
> which is a pretty good application, but turns useless when time stamp is
> messed up.
>
> >It's tough to realize that you've stabbed your own self.
>
> The problems is I don't know how I stabbed myself.


This was probably about modifying core files.


> >Have you considered using tar?
>
> Do you mean uploading tar file?  Do I not loose the "Site-Offline" page
> as soon as I expand the directory to overwrite the live directory until
> I manually rewrite the settings.php?
>
> By the way, there is one inc file I modified but I can't remember which
> one.  Without proper time stamp, this is bad.  I was wondering if anyone
> knows a good def GUI app runs on OSX10.4.  I actually don't know a
> proper keyword to google this.


Perhaps if you remember why you modified it, it would help finding
which one you modified (or whether it matters now).


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