Hi Torchify,
NR Pro and Free cannot be installed side by side. To minimize the downtime, it would be better to upgrade the NR client from Free to Pro first, as NR Free server accepts NR Pro clients. Once all NR clients get upgraded to the NR Pro, you can choose an approach to upgrade the NR Server to Pro.
1.You can setup a separate NR server (cannot use the same NR domain name, but you can use the IP:port to sign in), go to each client computer, sign in to the new Pro server until all clients get registered, then shutdown the old NR Free server.
2.Upgrade the NR Free server to Pro, then register NR clients to the new server.
3.You can upgrade the NR Free to Pro, stop the NR server, copy the NR Free database file NeoRouter_0_0_1.db to NeoRouter_0_0_2.db and overwrite the database file created by the NR Pro server. It's a practical approach, and it's on your own risk. Basically NR Pro has a database file NeoRouter_0_0_2.db while NR Free has a database file NeoRouter_0_0_1.db. Those databases are compatible , but the data can be different. It allows you to keep the existing data from NR Free.
Thanks, KevinZ - NeoRouter team
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