Update
Updating means updating ownCloud to the latest point release, e.g. ownCloud 4.0.6 → 4.0.7. To update an ownCloud installation manually, follow those steps:
If you have installed ownCloud from a repository, your package management should take care of it.
- Make a backup.
- Unpack the release tarball in the owncloud directory, i.e. copy all new files into the ownCloud installation.
- Make sure that the file permissions are correct.
- After the next page request the update procedures will run.
Assuming your ownCloud installation is at ./owncloud/ and you want to update to the latest version, you could do the following:
Use rsync in archive mode (this leaves file owner, permissions, and time stamps untouched) to recursively copy all content from ./owncloud/ to a backup directory which contains the current date:
[bash]rsync -a owncloud/ owncloud_bkpdate +"%Y%m%d"/[/bash]
Download the latest version to the working directory:
[bash]wget http://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-latest.tar.bz2[/bash]
Extract content of archive to ./owncloud_latest/:
[bash]mkdir owncloud_latest[/bash]
[bash]tar -C owncloud_latest -xjf owncloud-latest.tar.bz2[/bash]
Use rsync to recursivly copy extracted files (new) to ownCloud installation (old) using modification times of the new files, but preserving owner and permissions of the old files:
You should not use this [–inplace] option to update files that are being accessed by others (from rysnc man page)
[bash]rsync –inplace -rtv owncloud_latest/owncloud/ owncloud/[/bash]
Clean up:
[bash]rm -rf owncloud-latest.tar.bz2 owncloud_latest/[/bash]