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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!

Xenon · #12 03-23-2006, 08:02 PM

well, noone said that it will go in five minutes all in all ^^

Reeve of shinra · #13 03-24-2006, 12:12 AM

I dont have quite the mega board that Erwin and Kirby have but my upgrade went smooth. I just winged it on the live db and kept my fingers crossed that all would go well. It did for the most part except for an issue with a custom hack we are using. D'oh.

Xajel · #14 03-24-2006, 08:39 AM

We're still working with the test forum doing templates and almost finish just doing some templates upgrade from 3.5.1 to 3.5.4 and thats it

hacks are not a big deal as they will be available later already

we have 26k members + 770k posts and a frontpage PHPNuke portal

boske · #15 03-24-2006, 05:31 PM

Oh my...i had a double whammy

I had to convert my board from phpBB, and upgrade it to VB 3.5

The conversion would crash sometimes halfway through, and would have to restart it...

Took about 24 hours to complete the whole thing

Gunshot · #16 04-01-2006, 05:40 AM

Practiced on a test server for a week....till I got it down to about 2 hours

then installed a mirror site on the same domain and did the upgrade at 2am
finished around 4:30am and renamed the mirror to the original. very few issues other than a few broken paths......and some of the old templates had to be manually edited to get a few of the 3.5.4 features working

only lost a handfull of posts and no one was the wiser

Xenon · #17 04-01-2006, 09:21 AM

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only lost a handfull of posts and no one was the wiser

that sounds like a good plan ^^

Alex_ · #18 04-03-2006, 08:23 AM

Preparing in test forum and 7 hours downtime cause of recount, thumbnailing and a bit testing
I was having a guestbook-like script running to entertain the people while updating... they always panic when the sites not fully online

I now have made several diffs to patch a new version with my (php)code hacks - so the update from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4 was done in 30 seconds

Erwin · #19 04-03-2006, 11:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex_

Preparing in test forum and 7 hours downtime cause of recount, thumbnailing and a bit testing
I was having a guestbook-like script running to entertain the people while updating... they always panic when the sites not fully online

I now have made several diffs to patch a new version with my (php)code hacks - so the update from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4 was done in 30 seconds

That's a record!

Alex_ · #20 04-05-2006, 04:56 PM

Preparing the patches took much longer

But that's one time work of which you will profit for quite a while...

Paul M · #21 04-05-2006, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erwin

That's a record!

Hmm, I doubt you could actually run the upgrade script in 30 seconds, let alone change the files. Methinks 30 seconds is not quite accurate.

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