General Installation and Upgrade Question ...

[carbotex]

Currently, I'm running v3.4a. I downloaded the Linux installer and installed it on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS. The installation process went really smooth. I've been configuring Alfresco since v3.2r2 and only had little experience with v3.3g.

My question is:
Will it be easy to upgrade to future releases (v3.4b or greater)? Can I just download the latest war files and replace the old ones with the new ones (alfresco.war and share.war)? If this is the case, is it safe to say that technically I could upgrade my other Alfresco instance which is running v3.2r2, by replacing the war files from v3.4a, restart Tomcat, and expect everything to work?

[ssaravanan]

From what you said it seems you already have a running instance of Alfresco on V3.2r2.
If you want to upgrade to 3.4a , then install 3.4a , if everything working on 3.4a (same as the configs under 3.2r2, except for the data and db)
Take a backup of both the db of 3.2r2 and the alf_data directory.
Edit the alfresco-global.properties in 3.4a to point to the backedup db and alf_data directory.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/General_Upgrade_Process