XF 2.1 Going to upgrade from 1.5.2 to 2.1 Any Tips/Advice

[Mr Shap]

Hi Everyone,

Just joined here as I just acquired a Xenforo forum running 1.5.20. It's fairly large forum 7,000,000 posts and roughly 30,000,000 page views per month. I want to be sure things go smoothly. Any tips or advice?

I know this has probably been asked before. I've dug around and haven't been able to find much on it. Feel free to give me crap for not reading other threads. If you have any you suggest I look at please share. Thanks

Nice to meet you all.
Shap

 

[Paul B]

Install or upgrade? | Manual | XenForo

End-user documentation for XenForo

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Most importantly, test the process first on a test/dev installation.

 

[pothi]

@Mr Shap ... Have you upgraded?

From my experience upgrading from 1.x to 2.x, it took approximately 20 minutes to upgrade from 1.x to 2.x. We spent more time to simulate the upgrade on a test site, though. Ours is a forum with approximately 50k members, 40k threads / topics and 250k messages. Most of the things went right, except an issue with the license.

 

[duderuud]

A large forum takes quite a while to upgrade. Recommend using the cli upgrade in a screen...