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On the morning of your scheduled upgrade, TDL will generate a helpdesk ticket to track work and communicate with you throughout the upgrade.
Around noon on the day scheduled for your upgrade, TDL’s software engineer will restrict sessions on your DSpace repository, meaning nobody will be able to log in and add or change content. (Folks will still be able to browse the site and download unrestricted files.)
TDL will begin migrating migrate all of your content over to the a new DSpace 7 staging instance set up prior to the scheduled upgrade date that include theme and other customizations for your repository. TDL will point your production URL to the new DSpace 7 site. That process will be done sometime late in the morning on the following day.
At this point, TDL will contact you and ask you to test login via Shibboleth and to test/review the new site.When you approve the new site, TDL will point your production URL to the new DSpace 7 site.
Following the completion of the upgrade, you need to take the following steps:
Update deposit location(s) in Vireo.
Notify any external harvesters of the new OAI endpoint.
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