<blockquote class="blogcontent restore">Basic re-post of my vB 4.x upgrade process which I have been using for years. Basically, you upgrade on a copy of your live database so as to leave live database untouched in case you mess up the upgrade.
eva2000's upgrade process
My vB 3.8.x to vB 4.1.x upgrade process which I personally use myself as well as for private paying clients is as follows and assumes:
Step 1. Tune php and mysql settings specifically for backup, restore and upgrade process. Tune mysql to ensure enough memory is allocated to buffers to speed things up, increase timeout values for mysql to ensure no mysql timeouts and for php. Ensure mysql server has InnoDB support disabled otherwise you
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eva2000's upgrade process
My vB 3.8.x to vB 4.1.x upgrade process which I personally use myself as well as for private paying clients is as follows and assumes:
- you have ssh2 telnet access
- your vB 3.x forums are only using MySQL default MyISAM/Memory tables with NO InnoDB tables
- you have enough free disk space to hold all the backups approximately 3x to 6x times the size of your forum database/files/attachments in free disk space.
- public root directory = /home/username/public_html
- live database name = livedbname
- new databasename name = newdbname
Step 1. Tune php and mysql settings specifically for backup, restore and upgrade process. Tune mysql to ensure enough memory is allocated to buffers to speed things up, increase timeout values for mysql to ensure no mysql timeouts and for php. Ensure mysql server has InnoDB support disabled otherwise you
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