On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:04:42AM -0700, Chris Clawson wrote:
> Hmmm.. It sounds like an upgrade is a one time deal, with no going back. 

Well, it's easy enough to roll back in a testing situation:  just
restore the database dump and copy back your saved Solr cores.  You
could switch back and forth as needed, as long as you can accept
losing new submissions to the current version when you switch
versions.

> That makes me glad I have a test server. The 'side by side' install sounds 
> interesting, but this conversation doesn't provide any detail or links 
> explaining how to do that. If that were practical, I was thinking DSpace 7 
> might be installed alongside the live 6.3, and once everything was migrated 
> properly on a Release version of 7, the 6.3 install might be retired. Is 
> that a viable idea?

If you mean, parallel *production* versions:  how would you handle new
submissions, which would only be installed in one or the other?

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