Hi Charles, you can move your complete database from one to another server usually. All the configuration is stored in the database, so you won't have to re-enter frameworks, system preferences, patron information or any other data. After you have loaded your database into the new installation, you need to do a full reindex. That is the same if you are using Zebra or Elasticsearch. Hope this helps, Katrin On 18.01.21 12:33, Charles Kelley wrote:
My library is migrating its Koha database to a new server. I have found instructions on both YouTube and static sources. But the instructions are not perfectly clear to me and I have a few questions.
(1) How do you find out the password to MySQL?
(2) Does it matter whether you are running MySQL or MariaDB?
(3) Is "koha_library" a fixed phrase? Or is it the name of the Koha instance you are migrating, e.g., if your library is named ASDLIB, do you use "koha_library" or "ASDLIB"?
(4) If you are running ElasticSearch, are there complications and if so, what are they and their solutions?
(5) How does Zebra factor into all this?
I'm trying to avoid
* reentering frameworks;
* downloading MRC files of the authority records and bibliographic records and uploading them into the new server because of suspected linkage problems between the authority records and $9 subfields in the bibliographic records;
* reentering system preferences; * reentering patron information; and so forth.
Thank you very much.