By nmfdave on

Hello..

I would like to know how long it takes to upgrade Drupal from 6.2 to 6.14...

The reason is i have a developer who is saying it will take 6 hours and im wondering if he is taking me for a ride....

Thanks

Dave

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wickedbadawesome’s picture

wickedbadawesome commented

Dave,

Is your site big? Do you have many modules installed? Are you in the habit of backing up your data?

If your site is big then it could take him a while to make sure that nothing critical goes down after the update is complete.

Same deal with the modules - if you have alot of them installed you may lose functionality as the module may not be rewritten for the update.

Also, he may want to back up your data before hand and that takes some time, especially if the site is big.

It is really to hard to make an actual comment that would help you but i hope that does

Jason

Dr. DOT’s picture

Dr. DOT commented

nmfdave, I would also suggest that it depends on whether you have upgraded before. Not meaning going from 6.1 to 6.2 or anything like that, but more so meaning have YOU yourself ever stepped through an upgrade. I emphasize the "you" because I am going through my first upgrade -- going from 6.13 to 6.14. I thought it would be rather easy and straight forward.

I am now into hour 8 because the UPGRADE.txt instructions are very vague and presumptuous in places. I am learning the hard way from mistakes I am making along the way in this upgrade.

Here are some cautions and some advice: leave ../sites/default/settings.php in tact -- DON'T DELETE IT. Once you upload the new release files, then do a file comparison to ../sites/default/default.settings.php and manually update your settings.php file with any changes. Guarantee this will save you 1-2 hours, which I lost.

Also, for the newbies out there like me -- settings.php is what Drupal frequently refers too as its Configuration File. I did not know that (I would have thought the Configuration File would be named config.dat or config.txt or something like that. Or that Drupal would refer to it as its Settings File. So remember Configuration and settings are synonymous).

Here's another thing that will save you a great deal of time and anxiety. If you get locked out of Drupal in your browser during upgrade/install use this life-saving link --> http://your_domain.com/drupal/?q=user

I am not yet to the point of re-enabling my custom and contrib modules so I can't comment on that step at this time.

Good luck to you.