Unzipping a new Version

The newer version of Artifactory contains again the whole installation zip/tgz.

So, when unzipping a new verson, you need to keep the important subfolders of your Artifactory home:

Folder Name Description
etc You need to keep your configuration files.

The best way on Unix is to have a sym link for this folder (created by the default installation).
logs Keep or delete, your choice.
repos You need to export your repositories and reimport them using the UI. After you imported your repositories you can safely delete this folder as it no longer exists in newer Artifactory releases.
backup Better keep.

Changing just the war file on Tomcat

Most minor Artifactory updates can be done by changing the artifactory.war file.

ATTENTION: Avoid hot-deploy and make sure to delete the extracted artifactory folder under webapps/ before replacing the war.