Want to upgrade from 1.0.5 to 1.1 RC2

[Supermercado]

My forums are running 1.0.5 and so far, it's been great, so first of all, thanks for a great product.

I'm doing a complete overhaul of my entire site and want to go ahead and get my forums up to the latest version while I'm at it. I want to do a completely fresh install of the forums software rather than just a straight upgrade, just to make sure that everything is fresh and clean. I assume that I'd be okay by just upgrading but since I want to do a completely fresh install, I'm thinking that my best bet will be to first back up my current setup - sources, themes, and database - and then upgrade that install to 1.1 RC2 (going via 1.0.7 if necessary), and then for caution's sake, back that entire package up, as well, and then remove everything forums-related from my server except the database itself and then do a fresh install of 1.1 RC2.

I guess the reasoning behind that is that it will cover any database structure changes that may have been made between 1.0.5 and 1.1 RC2 and allow me to get that clean install I want. It'll be a bit of work to do but is that going to be my best course of action?

Thanks for any help. It is greatly appreciated.

[Kindred]

all of your forum data is actually stored in the database. (except for settings.php)

Go ahead... upload the full install of 1.1RC2
overwrite everything except settings.php

run upgrade.php in order to make your database in the correct format

[Supermercado]

Oh, so the 1.1RC2 upgrader can handle the database changes that are required from 1.0.5 to 1.1RC2? And I want to upload the full install of 1.1RC2 and then run upgrade.php rather than install.php?

[redone]

Correct. You are installing the upgrade package and yes you run upgrade.php not install.

All the required changes are handled by the upgrade package. Remember though there is no way back unless you maintain a backup of your old database.

[Supermercado]

Great. That'll make a lot less work for me, then.

I'm fairly compulsive when it comes to backups so I will definitely be making a backup of everything before making any changes at all to the forums.

Thanks to both of you for your quick assistance.