Migrating from old bench

The following steps will convert your existing old bench (assumed ~/frappe-bench) to the new bench.

• Install pip

  If you're on CentOS, make sure that you've pip installed. If you installed Python 2.7 from IUS community's repository (or using the install_centos.sh script from previous bench), run

  yum install python27-setuptools
  easy_install-2.7 -U pip
  

• Backup!

   cd ~
   cp -r frappe-bench frappe-bench-backup
  

• Install new bench

   cd ~
   git clone https://github.com/frappe/bench bench-repo
   sudo pip install -e bench-repo
  

• Remove unnecessary files

   cd ~/frappe-bench
   rm -rf install_scripts scripts templates standard_apps.json Readme.md .gitignore .git .update_bench
  

• Remove old crontab entries, check if you have crontab entries from the previous bench by running crontab -l and remove them by editing the crontab using crontab -e.

• Setup bench

   cd ~/frappe-bench
   bench setup config							# sets up config.json
   bench setup backups							# sets up auto backup every 6hrs
   bench setup auto-update						# auto updates bench and your erpnext instance every day at 10AM
   sudo bench setup sudoers					# required to restart supervisor (if production is setup)
   bench config restart_supervisor_on_update on# restart supervisor automatically after update (if production is setup)
  

If all goes well, you should be able to switch to the new bench without any downtime. No change required in nginx/supervisor config.