topic Is there a more easy way to upgrade Alfresco? in Alfresco Forum https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/is-there-a-more-easy-way-to-upgrade-alfresco/m-p/68415#M22700 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>I've deployed Alfresco nearly a year ago (Version 201704) for my private use. That took me 2-3 days, mostly reading how that works and configuring an OCR server for it.</P><P></P><P>Normally I keep my software up-to-date, but I was always afraid of doing an upgrade to my Alfresco installation because that seems to be like a full new installation ... including the configuration, re-installing and configuring the packages. Likely again two days of trying around how I did this a year ago.</P><P></P><P>Isn't there really a more easy way of upgrading? Any other software I'm using, and that's quite a lot, you just "dpkg" it over if it's not an archive, or stop the service, copy the new files over, restore the config files and start the service again.</P><P></P><P>I can't imagine everyone is doing a new install in parallel for every upgrade?!?</P><P></P><P>Backup in case something goes wrong is no problem ... I'll just do a snapshot of the VM and will be back in a minute if shit happens.</P><P></P><P>Any ideas are highly appreciated.</P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Marco</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:32:44 GMT jacotec 2018-04-30T11:32:44Z Is there a more easy way to upgrade Alfresco? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/is-there-a-more-easy-way-to-upgrade-alfresco/m-p/68415#M22700 Hi,I've deployed Alfresco nearly a year ago (Version 201704) for my private use. That took me 2-3 days, mostly reading how that works and configuring an OCR server for it.Normally I keep my software up-to-date, but I was always afraid of doing an upgrade to my Alfresco installation because that seem Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:32:44 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/is-there-a-more-easy-way-to-upgrade-alfresco/m-p/68415#M22700 jacotec 2018-04-30T11:32:44Z Re: Is there a more easy way to upgrade Alfresco? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/is-there-a-more-easy-way-to-upgrade-alfresco/m-p/68416#M22701 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No, any professional should not be doing a full install for every upgrade. The installer itself has its origin in being a tool for quick and easy trials, but was never geared towards professional / production-level use. There are multiple approaches how to setup an Alfresco system so it is easy to upgrade, either by using containerisation tools (Docker) or having a template script for installation that relies heavily on OS package manager components, which can be independently updated if need be.</P><P></P><P>With Alfresco 6.0 the vendor itself is moving more into the direction of container-based deployments and away from installers, and using containers it should be easier to upgrade an Alfresco installation for non-professionals.</P><P></P><P>Of course none of the improvements Alfresco makes can help you much when you have customisation / extension requirements (like OCR) that the default software does not provide. In that case - if you are not familiar with the architecture / internals / standard configuration patterns - it will always take longer and be more involved than a single command line executable.</P><P>I would compare setting up Alfresco to setting up an email server in a *nix based environment. Even though an email server should be a far more standardised piece of software, it still requires installing and configuring half a dozen individual components, and when I setup my corporate email server it took me about a day or so....</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:30:16 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/is-there-a-more-easy-way-to-upgrade-alfresco/m-p/68416#M22701 afaust 2018-04-30T16:30:16Z