By kjettingpunk on

Sorry, this is my first core update, so I'm really worried I'll mess something up in a big way.
I'm using 7.26 on a Dreamhost account, and I have already installed a lot of modules and set up the page.
It's not live yet, but I would hate for all this to go to waste. The manual install seems like there's a lot of things that can go wrong.
Drush seems easier, but I haven't used command lines since 1997 and am not familliar with Unix shells.

What manner of updating would you recommend?
How can I be sure nothing will go wrong?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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darol100’s picture

darol100 commented

Updating Drupal Core is very simple. All Drupal installation have a UPGRADE.txt files that contain information on how to upgrade your Drupal Core. 95% is as simple from replacing everything except your sites folder. For every Drupal Core new update is a release notes, I will recommend that you read that before your upgrade the Drupal Core.

These are the step that I recommend on how to update your core.

  • Create a Backup of your files and database.
  • Restore this backup in a test environment
  • Read the UPGRADE.txt & Release Notes
  • Try out in your test environment what the recommend UPGRADE.txt (In Drupal 7 most of the time is replacing everything except your sites folder.)
  • If your website don't crash. And you want to perform these steps on your live site.

To verify if you update your Drupal Core you can go to - /admin/reports/status and you will see something similar to this. http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h279/darol100/UpdatedCore_zps3a3a28b8.jpg

Also you can go to /admin/reports/updates and you will see something like this - http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h279/darol100/UpdatedCore2_zps94215457...

These two places will show you the Drupal Core version.

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izmeez commented

Certainly, you will thank yourself if you become familiar with using drush. A lot of people say they wish they had started using it sooner. Take a look at
http://transparatech.com/blog/how-use-drush-update-drupal-core-without-u...

Another way to update core is using a patch, this is not without its own caveats. See https://drupal.org/node/359234