SMF Upgrade Utility - does it continue to run?

[808server]

I was upgrading my SMF from 2.0.19 to 2.1.4.
The SFM Upgrade Utility was backing up and I have a backup so I tried to run it again.
It tells me that "user is running the upgrade script."
The upgrade script has been running for the last 2 hours, 43 minutes and 50 seconds

My question. Is it really running and will it eventually stop when done? The progress bar says overall progress 0 and Time Elapsed: 163 mins, 50 seconds.

Is it really doing it's thing or is there some way to stop it and start over?
Thanks!

[808server]

I tried logging in and it says that Overall Progress 31%. Step progress 34.2%.
Time Elapsed: 179 mins, 4 seconds.

But it has been stuck on adding likes.
Please be patient - this may take some time on large forums. The time elapsed increments from the server to show progress is being made.
Executing: "Adding support for likes" (23 of 71)

Error!

Server has not responded for 30 seconds. It may be worth waiting a little longer before trying again.Click here to try again.

Is it stuck or really running?

[808server]

OK just in case this might help someone. I am running a VPS, you can go into WHM, check the MySQL processes and see if it's doing something. In my case it was.
Hope this helps others.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Unless you have an enormous database the upgrade is failing.  Any server errors?

[808server]

OMG. It has been going for over 6 hours for the "post" database part and I think the upgrade stopped during "Convert to UTF-8". It's stuck on "Current Table: "members"

Yes, my database is 2.4GB!

What can I do at this point? I don't see any activity in WHM now.
Thanks for any help.

[Illori]

can you run the upgrade from CLI? that is usually recommended with a large forum.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Yes, my database is 2.4GB!

Did you empty log_errors table?  Have you been running pretty urls mod?  If so, how large is the pretty cache table?

[808server]

Thank you for the reply. It indeed did stop. Someone ran it again from ssh and it completed.
Luckily it is done.
Thanks!

[808server]

It's getting to the point where the forum is so large that upgrades can take days!

[Kindred]

I help on a forum with 2.7 million posts and 41 thousand users still only took a few hours