Upgrading Drupal

I have only just learned today about basic command lines and I do not have drupal installed locally, it is up on my online server so I'm wondering
if there is a newbie guide to upgrading with command lines ? It seems it would save so much time if I knew how to do it.

Is terminal(i'm on a mac os x 6.8) and drush the same thing?

Can the commands line be used for remote server and is there a simple walk through guide to do it for minor upgrade please?

Also while I'm on the subject, is it necessary to backup DB with minor upgrade?

There appear the 500er Error Internal Server Error at the time i upgrade to 7.16.with drush. Who can I help me?

Does anyone know if there will be a migration process from v7 to v8?

Before getting a whole pile of work done in re-doing my templates for v7 as we move from v5, I thought I would check if I may be better holding off in case I had to do it all over again next year.

Thanks for any advice on this.

Hi,

I've taken over supporting a Drupal 7.15 site; for the past few days, it has been displaying one security update warning, as well as other not-so-urgent updates to perform. I have been trying to address them using the Update Manager. But after the updates have run fully, within 24 hours I'm getting the same update warnings, for the same versions of the modules.

Hello,

- clean urls are activated,
- prefixes /en, /de, /fr are present in urls,
- nodes have determined languages,
- "Determine the language from the URL (Path prefix or domain)." is checked in /admin/config/regional/language/configure,
- and "Path prefix " is checked in its configuration,
- tested with Garland after flushing all caches ...

what else !?

--> even it's an upgrade and you know i18n 6.x, it's better to follow the tutorial about i18n 7.x:
then you don't forget to activate "Multilingual select " !!!

I have site in Drupal 5. Now I want to create new site in Drupal 7 and import articles from old site. How can I do it?
All I want from old site are articles and users. I don't need comments, modules, design etc..
Is there some way to import articles from Drupal 5 to my new Drupal 7 site so that URL's bee the same like on D5 (e.g: www.somesite.com/node/1234).
I was trying migrate and feeds modules but without success.
If I can't do it, where can I looking for paid help?