[Vtigercrm-developers] Upgrade from 5.3

[Matt Bracewell]

Thanks for the helpful input Alan,

I've got no PBX integration so I'm clear on that count.

Is trawling this list archive the best way to get your improved script?
Do you test after each step or is the absence of errors a sufficient
indication of success?

Kind regards,

Matt Bracewell

On 20 April 2015 at 09:51, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 20/04/15 09:35, Matt Bracewell wrote:
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> There has been much discussion here on upgrade scripts over the years
>> and many examples of partial upgrades due to (silent) execution timeout
>> etc.
>>
>> Is there any decent documentation on multi-version upgrades? Advice on
>> best practice, ideas for testing, command line tools etc, etc etc.
>>
>
> This is not straightforward.
>
> The web-based migration generally works for small databases and/or you
> will get an error when something goes wrong :-)
>
> However for bigger databases the web-based scripts suck. They almost
> always time out and die silently :-(
>
> When going from 5 to 6 you really need to "fix" the database beforehand to
> prevent the migration script trying to create and population the new
> crmentity label column - the migration code is incredibly slow and
> inefficient. (I have posted in here before an alternative script that
> reduced the time from >10 hours to a few minutes.)
>
> If you have PBXManager beware going from 6.1. to 6.2 - the script to
> migrate the PBXManager table doesn't really do anything as far as I can
> tell and again takes eons to do it... I have also commented on this in this
> list before.
>
> Documentation? Not that I have found.
>
> Best practice? One step at a time, keep your fingers and toes crossed,
> keep notes on what you do.
>
> HTH
>
> Al
>
>
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