Server Updating - Best Practices

[Vl4dim1r]

What is the recommended way of installing a new update? I know unzipping the update in the working directory (server stopped of course) will overwrite everything, or not update everything. Making a new folder for the update and backing up the old one is too tedious, having to copy over worlds, configs, custom mods, etc. I'm running a linux server by the way. Ubuntu 12.04.

[planetguy]

I think you need to delete the mods folder and then drop in the new update files, otherwise Forge tries (and fails) to load all the old mods that include the version in their name and thus escaped overwriting.