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big boarders who went from 3.0.x to 3.5.x how did ya do it? · **Released**: 03-18-2006

I would love to hear some examples of how you big board folks did your major upgrade from 3.0.x to 3.5.x

My board is not quite "big board" yet but it's getting close, and I am faced with upgrading to 3.5 with minimal disruption. As you can imagine my 3.0.6 board over the years has been hacked and modded quite a bit.

Thanks for any tips!

Thomas P · #32 06-21-2006, 11:08 PM

Dunno if we qualify as a big board, whatever:

Worked well, we had ~4 hours downtime.

1. Reverted and rehacked the templates on our testing board -> some custom templates and some custom phrases.
2. Closed Live forums
3. Backup of db (mysqldump)
4. Upgrade process (upgrade.php)
5. Import templates from testing board (custom templates)
6. Import language file from testing board (custom phrases)
7. Create Plugins (Mods we need)
8. Backup of db (mysqldump)
9. Re-open Forums

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