Upgrading to Galaxy 1.5

Upgrading to Galaxy 1.5 is easy - Galaxy will do all the work for you.

Before you upgrade, please backup your previous database!!!!

If you are using the community version or the enterprise version with the embedded derby database you can simply copy your galaxy-data directory. Your galaxy-data directory is located in the directory that you launch Galaxy from.

For example:

$ cp -R galaxy-data galaxy-data-1.0.bak
$ java -jar galaxy-web-standalone-1.5.jar
....
Upgrading to version 1.5....
Upgrade to version 1.5 complete!

To roll back:

$ mv galaxy-data galaxy-1.5.bak
$ mv galaxy-data-1.0.bak galaxy-1.0
$ java -jar galaxy-web-standalone-1.0.jar
....