Upgrading from Sitebuilder 2.x and Migrating Data

If you have previously worked with SWsoft Sitebuilder for Linux/Unix version 2.x, and wish to upgrade to version 3.x or later, it is necessary to migrate all your Sitebuilder data to the newer version of Sitebuilder.

Currently, it is possible to upgrade to 4.1 from the following Sitebuilder 2.x versions:

• 2.0.0
• 2.1.0
• 2.1.1
• 2.1.2
• 2.1.3

The data migration process consists of two steps:

• Migration of user accounts. At this step the Sitebuilder package is updated, and all existing user accounts data are migrated to the new Sitebuilder version.
• Migration of sites data. At this step the data of sites are migrated. While moving sites, you can either launch the utility to automatically migrate all sites, or migrate them separately using the Administrator Panel.

At each migration step the main Sitebuilder content is migrated first, and then the Sitebuilder modules are migrated.

Note: Prior to migration, it is necessary to back up your Sitebuilder 2.x installation, including both directory and database, file repositories of sites, databases, etc.