diff --git a/openbis/source/bash/sprint_install.sh b/openbis/source/bash/sprint_install.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# This script assumes that you already are on the sprint server and must be run from that place
+# in the home directory.
+
+if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 <sprint number>"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+VER=$1
+PREV_VER=$(( $VER - 1 ))
+DB_SNAPSHOT=db_snapshots/sprint$PREV_VER-lims_productive.sql
+
+./sprint/openBIS-server/apache-tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
+./sprint/download-server/download-service.sh stop
+
+pg_dump -U postgres -O lims_productive > $DB_SNAPSHOT
+tar -cf - $DB_SNAPSHOT | bzip2 >db_snapshots/sprint$PREV_VER-lims_productive.tar.bz2
+rm -f $DB_SNAPSHOT
+
+mv sprint-$PREV_VER old
+rm sprint
+mkdir sprint-$VER
+ln -s sprint-$VER sprint
+cd sprint
+unzip ../openBIS-server-S$VER-* 
+cd openBIS-server
+./install.sh $PWD ../../service.properties
+
+cd ..
+unzip ../download-server-S$VER-* 
+cd download-server
+cp ~/old/sprint-$PREV_VER/download-server/etc/service.properties etc/
+chmod 700 download-service.sh
+export JAVA_HOME=/usr
+./download-service.sh start
+cd
+mv *.zip tmp
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diff --git a/openbis/source/bash/tag_and_build.sh b/openbis/source/bash/tag_and_build.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# This script assumes that 'sprint-openbis' matches the sprint server (hostname: 'sprint-openbis.ethz.ch')
+# configured in the SSH config file and that 'hal' matches hostname 'cisd-hal.ethz.ch'.
+
+if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 <sprint number>"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+TODAY=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
+VER=$1
+FULL_VER=S$VER.0
+
+svn checkout svn+ssh://source.systemsx.ch/repos/cisd/build_resources/trunk build_resources
+cd build_resources
+./tag_sprint.sh openbis S$VER
+./build.sh openbis S$VER
+
+HAL_PATH=../cisd/sprint_builds/openBIS
+HAL_DIR=$HAL_PATH/$TODAY-$FULL_VER
+echo "mkdir -p $HAL_DIR"  | ssh -T hal
+scp *.zip hal:$HAL_DIR
+
+scp openBIS-server-*.zip sprint-openbis:.
+scp download-server-*.zip sprint-openbis:.