Forgot to stop confluence when upgrading.

[Saurabh Arora]

Hi,

I am upgrading my staging instance of Confluence from 6.5.2 to 6.8.2.

I extracted the tar file and ran command to start-confluence of new version. I forgot to stop confluence before running the start-confluence command of new version.

Now, my installation directory is also missing. I dont know if it got wiped out.

I am doing it for the first time. Kindly help.

Thanks,

Surbhi

[AnnWorley]

Hi Surbhi,

Happy to hear you are upgrading a staging instance and not Production first.

It sounds like the upgrade may have succeeded. Did you edit the file <Confluence_6.8.2>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties to point to your old Confluence 6.5.2 home directory before starting the new instance? If so, please check the atlassian-confluence.log in <Confluence_Home>/logs. The upgrade task entries in the log list a bunch of SQL queries then it should say something like "entire upgrade completed successfully", or else "upgrade failed" and a reason why.

If you ran start-confluence.sh (you mention a tar ball so I am thinking you're on Linux) without pointing the confluence-init.properties to the home directory of the old instance then the expected behavior would be that you would see the setup wizard in the browser when you access Confluence. It would not do anything to your old instance but your Confluence 6.5.2 instance may be running on the same port as the newly spun up instance. It shouldn't delete your Confluence 6.5.2 install directory. The old instance should be accessible if you run stop-confluence.sh on the newer instance.

One way to proceed would be to restore from backup or restore a snapshot if it's a VM and then try the upgrade again, while following Upgrading Confluence Manually. You could even try the installer method since you are going from a 6.x version to another 6.x version: Upgrading Confluence

Best wishes,

Ann