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Backup, recovery and upgrade strategy for Drupal

Discussion in 'Drupal' started by Red Paul, Mar 18, 2010.

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    Having built several Drupal sites, I live in fear of wrecking them! I hate doing upgrades and always get messages that I should upgrade AGAIN due to some new patches.

    Any tips for a properly structured regime to keep my sites up to date without risk of losing what I've built up over the years (including added modules and minor customisation of CSS/php)

    Thanks
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    Red Paul, Mar 18, 2010 IP
  2. Tearabite

    Tearabite Prominent Member

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    Backup the database and be sure to keep a local copy.
    Backup all your files (or at least your module files if upgrading a module) and be sure to keep a local copy.

    that's really all i do. FWIW, if upgraded modules hundreds of times or more, and only run into a problem ONCE, so i'd say module upgrades are pretty safe. Doing core updates/upgrades are a bit more scary, but my crash&burn rate has been very low.
     
    Tearabite, Mar 19, 2010 IP
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    I usually backing up database and /sites folder which usually have all additional modules, themes and uploaded content(images, PDFs, etc)
     
    NickM, Apr 5, 2010 IP