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Auto upgrade problem 6.6.9 -> 6.72

1 May 23, 2016 21:03    

Hi everyone!

I am attempting to upgrade a b2e install using auto upgrade and I have run into a snag.

The url is: http://www.6worlds.net

My b2e install is in the root directory of my site. There are also a couple of other installations of non-b2e software in directories there as well. So the b2e directories are alongside of two separate wordpress directories and 1 directory for a survey application.This seems to be creating a problem since when the backing up of files gets to one of the wordpress directories it hangs up and won't get beyond that -- printing on the maintenance mode page the following line and stopping:

Backing up «/home/website/public_html/WP1/» ...

which is a WP directory.

I have tried adding an instruction to ignore that directory in the upgrade_policy.conf file but I am not sure on reading the file whether it ignores that directory for backup purposes as well as installation.

Any help or advice anyone could give me would be appreciated!

Thanks,
geo

BTW, I am new to using b2e and so far I love it! I'm in the process of switching from wordpress but wanted to keep those other blogs alive for demo purposes...

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2 May 23, 2016 23:37

UPDATE:
I succeeded with a manual upgrade instead and it worked just fine -- not as a bad as I thought it would be...

-geo

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3 May 27, 2016 06:24

Hi, @geoslack

Maybe the automatic upgrade was hung at those folders on the zip creation, so if you uncheck that option on the Advanced backup options tab, it would continue normally.

That's true that there was no way to ignore those folder on backup, because the upgrade policies apply after the backup is already done and excluded folder (media and some others) are hardcoded in the core.

However, in version 6.7.2 you will find a backup_ignore.conf file (http://b2evolution.net/man/backup_ignore-conf) that solves this issue. Just consider that as version 6.7.2 is the latest released, full tests of this feature are still pending until a 6.7.3 is released.

Thank you.

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4 May 27, 2016 06:34

Thanks so much for the response! I will be sure to try that out next time I upgrade. It did seem like things got hung up during the backup part of the process...

geo

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