The process of doing an upgrade usually consists of:
Upgrade the site
Test the site
Lock the site for editing
Upgrade the site again (to get the new data which has been created during the testing)
Open site for editing
For this forth step, it should not be neccessary to perform copying of the entire site (at least not extensions and entire var/ directory again) since little has been changed. Instead an rsync should be performed. This will greatly improve the speed ot the second (live) upgrade and result in less time needed to lock down the site while performing the upgrade.
The process of doing an upgrade usually consists of:
For this forth step, it should not be neccessary to perform copying of the entire site (at least not extensions and entire var/ directory again) since little has been changed. Instead an rsync should be performed. This will greatly improve the speed ot the second (live) upgrade and result in less time needed to lock down the site while performing the upgrade.