Answers.Body: <p>@Catorghans, starting a community wiki here with your response on the Backdrop Zulip chat (feel free to edit/expand):</p>
  <blockquote>
  <ul>
  <li>Yep, this is a working procedure: first create a <code>civicrm.settings.php</code> in <code>backdrop-root/</code></li>
  <li>leave <code>civicrm</code> module enabled. Use the same CiviCRM version for Backdrop as you had for Drupal 7</li>
  <li>run the Backdrop upgrade.</li>
  </ul>
  </blockquote>
  <p>This also means that webform_civicrm does a proper upgrade.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I am trying to upgrade a Drupal 7 site with CiviCRM to backdropCMS, but am struggling.</p>
  <p>Am looking <a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/sysadmin/en/latest/misc/switching-cms/drupal-to-backdrop/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.civicrm.org/sysadmin/en/latest/misc/switching-cms/drupal-to-backdrop/</a> and <a href="https://docs.backdropcms.org/documentation/step-3-upgrade-the-drupal-site" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.backdropcms.org/documentation/step-3-upgrade-the-drupal-site</a></p>
  <p>Am not switching drupal to backdrop, am upgrading it.</p>
  <p>What I did sofar:
  Leave civicrm module and webform_civicrm module enabled, upgrade to backdrop.
  Tried to install an empty backdrop, because of <a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/sysadmin/en/latest/misc/switching-cms/drupal-to-backdrop/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.civicrm.org/sysadmin/en/latest/misc/switching-cms/drupal-to-backdrop/</a>
  Which failed, because civicrm does not want to install, it asks for a civicrm.settings.php</p>
  <p>I created it, filled in the empty civicrm database, that did not work. Used the existing civicrm database, disabled civicrm and enabled again. Now Civicrm seems to start working.</p>
  <p>But webform_civicrm data seem completely lost.</p>
  <p>How should I do the upgrade from D7 to Backdrop and preserve CiviCRM and webform_civicrm data and functionality?</p>
  
Tags: <migration><drupal-7><backdrop>
Title: Upgrade drupal 7 to backdrop
ThreadText: # Upgrade drupal 7 to backdrop
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-01-20)
  
  I am trying to upgrade a Drupal 7 site with CiviCRM to backdropCMS, but am struggling.
  
  Am looking <https://docs.civicrm.org/sysadmin/en/latest/misc/switching-cms/drupal-to-backdrop/> and <https://docs.backdropcms.org/documentation/step-3-upgrade-the-drupal-site>
  
  Am not switching drupal to backdrop, am upgrading it.
  
  What I did sofar:
  Leave civicrm module and webform\_civicrm module enabled, upgrade to backdrop.
  Tried to install an empty backdrop, because of <https://docs.civicrm.org/sysadmin/en/latest/misc/switching-cms/drupal-to-backdrop/>
  Which failed, because civicrm does not want to install, it asks for a civicrm.settings.php
  
  I created it, filled in the empty civicrm database, that did not work. Used the existing civicrm database, disabled civicrm and enabled again. Now Civicrm seems to start working.
  
  But webform\_civicrm data seem completely lost.
  
  How should I do the upgrade from D7 to Backdrop and preserve CiviCRM and webform\_civicrm data and functionality?
  
  **Tags:** migration, drupal-7, backdrop
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2022-01-20. Score: 1
  
  @username_0, starting a community wiki here with your response on the Backdrop Zulip chat (feel free to edit/expand):
  
  > * Yep, this is a working procedure: first create a `civicrm.settings.php` in `backdrop-root/`
  > * leave `civicrm` module enabled. Use the same CiviCRM version for Backdrop as you had for Drupal 7
  > * run the Backdrop upgrade.
  
  This also means that webform\_civicrm does a proper upgrade.
  
  
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