By Lee Sykes
September 2010
In this tutorial we provide a review and a detailed demonstration of the Papayas DNNAutoUpgrade module.
This module is really useful for easily and quickly upgrading your DotNetNuke websites automatically.
The module provides the following features:
- Upgrade to any available DotNetNuke version
- Automatic files and database backup before upgrade
- Automatic upgrade errors fixing
- Automatic rollback in case of fail
- No errors for site visitors during website upgrade and restore
- Hosting provider support with Low CPU mode
- DNN Pro support
- Possible rollback to any previous version
- Emergency restore from scratch in case of website fail
The videos contain:
Video 1 - Introduction, Installing the Module, Overview of Settings
- Introduction
- Where to find the free trial of DnnAutoUpgrade
- Features of DnnAutoUpgrade
- How to install DnnAutoUpgrade to your DotNetNuke installation
- How to add a page into the Host Menu
- Adding the DnnAutoUpgrade module to the page
- Overview of the upgrade settings
- Do not cancel upgrade on backup error
- Do not rollback upgrade on error
- Low CPU mode
- Do Backup without upgrade
- License
Time Length: 8min 36secs
Video 2 - Upgrading DotNetNuke to Latest Version, Restoring to a Previous Version
- How to check your current version of DotNetNuke and which upgrades are available
- Upgrading to the latest version
- How to upgrade to the latest DNN pro version
- How to upgrade to the latest version of DotNetNuke using DNNAutoUpgrade
- Overview of the upgrade report
- How to check the version of your newly upgraded DNN installation
- Recommended steps after an upgrade
- How to view the backup files ready for restore
- How to restore to a previous DotNetNuke version from a backup
- Checking the current DotNetNuke version and available backups
- How to perform a backup of your DNN installation without upgrading
Time Length: 10min 51secs
Video 3 - How to Perform an Emergency Restore, Upgrade from DNN 4.x
- How to find the stored backup files
- Locating the DnnAutoUpgrade emergency restore files
- Installing the DnnAutoUpgrade module to a page on a DNN version 4.x installation
- How to upgrade from DotNetNuke version 4.x to version 5.x
- Refreshing the page to reveal the main menu
- Performing an emergency restore
- Removing all files from the App_Code folder
- How to extract the restore zip folder to the DotNetNuke website root
- Opening the website root and performing the restoration
Time Length: 11min 51secs
Total Time Length: 31min 18secs
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