[Archivesspace_Users_Group] upgrading to new release

[Blake Carver]

Short answer, yes.
Long answer...

Let's say I've been running my ArchivesSpace in the directory '/whatever/someplace/archivesspace-v2.5/'  for a bunch of years now, and I want to get with the program and upgrade to the newest version.

So I download that and put it in '/whatever/someplace/archivesspace-v3.0/'  and put in the mysqlconnector file, and get my config.rb file set. I backup my database, shut down my old ArchivesSpace and run setup-datase.sh, and start up version 3.0! It starts up, runs fine, no errors, YAY ME! (I'm not running any plugins) (And no, there's no version 3.0 yet)

I didn't bother copying over the stuff in /data/ because that all gets rebuilt and I can wait for that to happen. So now what do I do with '/whatever/someplace/archivesspace-v2.5/' ?  I wait a few days, just to make sure I didn't miss any weird bugs or data trouble, and now there's nothing in '/whatever/someplace/archivesspace-v2.5/' that I need. I still have the old database in my backups, and I can always download the code again from GitHub if I need to, but there's no turning back now because I've been working!

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From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of Lori Dedeyan <ldedeyan at mikekelleyfoundation.org>
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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] upgrading to new release

Hi all,

I have a simple question- if we have followed instructions for upgrading to a new release of ArchivesSpace (https://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/user/upgrading-to-a-new-release-of-archivesspace/), are we clear to remove any previous installation directories? We currently have a single tmp file (jetty-0.0.0.0-8089-backend.war-_-any-) in an old version folder (v 2.6.0) that has for some reason ballooned in size (4.5 GB) and would like to remove it without repercussions.

Thanks for your help!
Lori

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