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    From Mike Dippel@3:640/1116 to g00r00 on Thursday, March 31, 2022 15:40:52
    It's time for me to update. I did it once, but I want to ensure I don't screw anything up.

    Can I just zip the entire mystic directory into 1 file as a backup mystic.zip? My hope is that
    if I do that, I will have something to fall back on.

    I assume I would then download the latest .zip update file, unzip it into it's own directory
    and do the upgrade from there, following the instructions of course.

    Thanks,
    Mike Dippel

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  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to Mike Dippel on Friday, April 01, 2022 11:59:01
    Can I just zip the entire mystic directory into 1 file as a backup mystic.zip? My hope is that
    if I do that, I will have something to fall back on.

    Yes that would be maybe even overkill but a good idea to do that if you can.

    I assume I would then download the latest .zip update file, unzip it
    into it's own directory
    and do the upgrade from there, following the instructions of course.

    I don't know which version you are upgrading to but yes you would unzip the new one in a temp directory and there should be an upgrade.txt to follow.

    The upgrade between A46 and A47 is one of the more painful ones unfortunately. I waited too long in between releases on this one.

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