Important: Before updating your live site, you need to know which features of the new version released you will want to update, you can read the releases notes, for example.

1. Backup your database and folders. You can create backup manually via cPanel or hosting file manager and backup database throught SSH or phpMyAdmin.

2. Prepare a dev site or on the localhost to run the procedure under a staging environment. So your data of live site will be safe.

3. Install the backup of livesite in difference database username and password.

4. Verification: check all things to make sure the site backup of live site are working on your dev site extractly same like the live site.

I hope this help for some one to know what you need to do before upgrading your magento site. Any comment would appreciate to improve this post and give more solutions.

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