Best practices and troubleshooting
Upgrading Alfresco can be a long process, depending on the repository size. Here are a few tips for administrators that will be helpful in the upgrade process:
- It is recommended to do a dry run of the upgrade process before starting the upgrade process on production data.
- Set up proper monitoring for database server logs and the Alfresco server. Alfresco log monitoring will help troubleshoot any issue faced while upgrading. Database logs will help to troubleshoot if there is any problem with upgrading the database.
- During the upgrade process Alfresco moves the data from the old schema to the new database schema, which can take time depending on the size of the repository.
- Proper regression of customized code with the new version of Alfresco server is required.
- Monitor Solr indexes and do proper data verification.
- From a validation standpoint after upgrade, validate that you are able to search all the existing content, users, and groups. Check that permissions...
