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It is recommended that you maintain separate QA (test) and Production instances. Upgrade your QA tier and confirm things are working as expected before upgrading Production. |
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It is not always possible to upgrade multiple versions in one step. When this is not the case, if you attempt to skip a critical release you will see this message when trying to update the database schema:
You must download and upgrade successfully to the specified version. This is the list of versions that block upgrading:
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Backup Your Database
While upgrading is usually a fairly straightforward process, from time to time fairly significant database changes are made. Efforts are made to make these changes transparent, but as a precaution you should create a backup of your database prior to upgrading in case you need to revert the upgrade.
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$ cd app
$ su -c "./Console/cake upgradeVersion" ${APACHE_USER}
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Current version: 0.9.4
Target version: 1.0.0
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Database schema update successful | ||
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It is not always possible to upgrade multiple versions in one step. For example, if you are currently running 0.9.3 you cannot directly upgrade to 1.0.0. If you try, you will see the error message
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When upgrading the database schema, you may see " |
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