Best practice for upgrading

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Martin Hellgren Posted: Tue, Apr 22 2008 7:51 AM

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 Hi

We are currently using CS2007 which we have done a lot of skinning/theming on. We are considering to start "fresh" with a new design in CS2008 and therefor wonder if this procedure would be possible.

1. Install a new version of CS2008

2. Make a copy ot the CS2007 database.

3. Run the upgrade script on the CS2007 database.

4. Connect the new version of CS2008 to the upgraded CS2007 database.

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Ben Tiedt replied on Tue, Apr 22 2008 8:03 AM

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I'd suggest:

1.  Install a new version of CS2008

2.  Make a copy of the CS2007 database

3.  Connect CS2008 to the CS2007 database

4.  Copy the files/storage, photos/storage/, blogs, forums/storage, sitefiles/ folders (and their contents) from the CS2007 site to the CS2008 site (without overwriting existing files)

5.  Run the upgrade script on the CS2008 site

6.  OPTIONAL: Delete the files, photos, blogs/files, and forums/storage folders.

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Martin Hellgren replied on Tue, Apr 22 2008 9:04 AM

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 Hi Ben

Thanks, just to make sure I copy the right things:

files/storage, ok

 sitefiles, ok

photos/storage

blogs

Copy or not copy the blog content

Copy or not copy the blog files?

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Ben Tiedt replied on Tue, Apr 22 2008 9:50 AM

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You can copy the entire photos/ folder if you'd like -- after you've run the upgrade tool for CS2008, you can remove the entire photos/ folder from the upgraded site.

For blogs, I would suggest copying all of the contents of the blogs/ folder... just don't overwrite any existing files in the CS2008 site.