Updating Forum Software?, What do you guys think? Options

[Defgeph]

Sounds good, I'll be online tonight if you need help with anything.

[Coomer]

Sounds good.

Here's my basic plan of attack:

8pm PST - Take the site offline. This has to be done in order to ensure the database isn't being changed while I update.

I'll make backups to my hard drive as well as Amazon S3 of the entire forums directory and database. There's a good chance that the changes will be too great to do all at once and I may revert everything back if I can't get it working by tomorrow morning.

Hopefully by 9pm I'll have backups done and can start the upgrades.

Hopefully by 10pm I can have the forums upgraded and have the site online shortly afterwards, but I doubt the upgrade process will go smoothly. I expect the upgrade scripts to fail, meaning I'll be updating everything manually, which will take several hours.

But by tomorrow morning, I should have the site back online, hopefully with the forums upgraded, but possibly in the same state that it's currently in now.

[DEATH]

Damn man - I admire your skills and your dedication to the site you started for a car you no longer own [but you'll always be a Celica driver at heart I bet - you'll get another one someday I'll bet ]
I love this site

[manphibian]

Superb.

Much appreciated.

[stetsonaw]

[punkuup5150]

i just hope i can still see everything at work all im worried about lol.

[CelicaST_CALI]

bye bye 6gc.net hope the surgery goes well

This post has been edited by CelicaST_CALI: May 7, 2008 - 10:28 PM

[Tigawoods]

sigh im gunna miss the old 6gc. but this is a change for the better