Upgrade, Restore Drupal 7

Shell script to upgrade and restore Drupal 7 website
This script will take care of the necessary actions required for upgrading drupal to higher versions.

USAGE

• Copy the script to your webserver.


• Edit the script and change the variables to match with your setup


• Give execute privilege to the owner of the script (chmod u+x upgrade-restore-drupal7.sh)


• Execute the script ./upgrade-restore-drupal7.sh

UPGRADE

$ ./upgrade-restore-drupal7.sh 
 Please enter your choice:
 1. Update drupal
 2. Restore an old installation from backup
 3. Exit
1
Please enter the new drupal version (eg: 7.15) : 7.18
Downloading drupal-7.18
Downloaded the the drupal version drupal-7.18
Current site backup is created: /home/foo/backups/08-01-2013-0938
Database backup created: /home/foo/backups/08-01-2013-0938.sql
Site is in maintanence mode now
Removed all drupal core files from destination
Copied the new version contents
Drupal updated to drupal-7.18
Site is active again, but please update your database, 

please visit http://<yourwebsite>/update.php   

to finalize the process 

RESTORE

$ ./upgrade-restore-drupal7.sh 
 Please enter your choice:
 1. Update drupal
 2. Restore an old installation from backup
 3. Exit
2
List of available backups
08-01-2013-0753
08-01-2013-0758
08-01-2013-0804
08-01-2013-0841
08-01-2013-0849
08-01-2013-0858
08-01-2013-0900
08-01-2013-0904
08-01-2013-0905
08-01-2013-0938
Please enter the backup file name to restore: (eg: 08-01-2013-0753): 
08-01-2013-0905
Site is offline now
Removed production files
Restored the filesystem backup 
Restored the database
Site is restored

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Upgrading Linux Mint 13 (maya) to Linux Mint 14 (nadia).

Take a backup of the current sources.list, preferably make a full backup of the system.

Edit the sources.list file,
replace the occurrences of maya with nadia and precise with quantal.

$ vi /etc/sources.list

:%s/maya/nadia/g
:%s/precise/quantal/g

Resulting file may look like.

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ nadia main upstream import
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ quantal partner
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ quantal free non-free

Update the system

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade