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# UPGRADING - upgrading OpenTRS
# Copyright (C) 2002 Martin Edenhofer <martin+code@otrs.org>
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# $Id: UPGRADING,v 1.1 2002/08/06 20:28:19 martin Exp $
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These instructions are for people upgrading OpenTRS to a newer release.

*) Stop all your services (e. g. rcotrs stop-force)

*) Backup everything (database, Kernel/Config.pm, var/*)

*) Make sure that you have backed up everything ,-)

*) If possible try this install on a separate machine, althoug
   I had always only production machines to upgrade

*) Install the new release (tar or RPM)

*) Update the new Kernel/Config.pm with your setting (use the newer 
   Kernel/Config.pm - normally new releases have more config settings)

*) Restart your services (e. g. rcotrs restart-force or each service manually)
 
