We highly recommend to perform a dry run of the upgrade process in a pre-production environment. This allows you to thoroughly test the upgrade and rollback procedures in a safe and controlled environment before proceeding with the installation process to upgrade your production environment.
By following the Backup and restore instructions, you can create a reliable pre-production environment that accurately reflects your production environment. This enables you to test the upgrade process thoroughly before implementing it in production.
The upgrade procedure can take longer on every new version depending on the volume of data to migrate. We strongly recommend testing the upgrade procedure on a pre-production environment to estimate the required time to upgrade your production environment.