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Learning Continuous Integration with TeamCity

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Learning Continuous Integration with TeamCity

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning Continuous Integration with TeamCity
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Handling upgrades


Another important aspect of a production system is the ability to handle upgrades gracefully. The server should not end up losing data or be down for a long time because of upgrades.

Note

When updates are available for TeamCity, the Administration pages show a notice to that effect along with a download link, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once the message is hidden (by an administrator), it can be accessed in the Server Health page under Administration along with other server-related messages.

The first thing to do before an upgrade is back up all the relevant data and settings. Due to the changes in the structure of the data, both in the data directory and in the database, most upgrades to newer versions of TeamCity will not support downgrades back to the older version. If we run into problems after an upgrade, the backups will turn out to be lifesavers.

Updating a server installed via an archive

Updating the TeamCity version for a server installed via an archive, as...