Hey everyone. For a variety of reasons I’ve ended up with a paperless-ngx install that has not been upgraded for a while. It’s currently on 1.17.1, and I’ve been researching to figure out the best way to get back up to current. I’m worried about major changes that have happened over time and what the best way to go about this is, but I’ve not had good luck finding something that gives me the confidence to go about it. Hoping someone here has some guidance. Cheers!
In these cases I’ll do the same thing other people here seem to do as well. Do a backup (or snapshot) and then I’ll try to just do it. Obviously read the documentation on updates and major version upgrades first. I think that’s fine in the case of paperless-ngx.
Either it works or it doesn’t. In that case I’ll gather error logs and information for debugging and roll back to the backup. After a successful major upgrade, I often go through the settings and config and check about all the things that have been added or changed in the meantime and make sure they’re set to my liking.