OneStream Upgrade with Minimal Downtime

Hi RayKelly 

I like your thinking here! However, I did many upgrades On-Prem and never came up with a specific strategy for that. I would disagree with you when you say it takes time to uninstall and reinstall. It is pretty fast!
The only place I would always spend extract time it on the backup of files/folders and SQL DB. For sure, you could skip those steps, but when you think about it, it has no impact on your downtime. It is actually even better to do this, just in case... and then you would reduce downtime if bad things happen.
I would recommend that you stick to the upgrade guide and I am sure you can do the upgrade in less than one hour (depending of the amount of DB upgrade that needs to be done!!) By experience, for me it is the DB upgrade that takes the most time. You could have a robot doing the job for you, but I think other people have scripts for that.... but I never saw it. If someone at OS could share that, that would be nice!
Cheers
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