On 18/02/16 08:16, jre18 wrote:
Hello I am looking for a little direction/instruction.
We currently have a very old Koha server (2.2.5) running on Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS.
I have built a new Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS server and would like to install Koha there and import my databases from the old server. The version of Koha that I have installed is now 3.2.2 on this new server.
How do I get the database information imported there to get the new server up and running?
I tried following the instrcutions here but it did not work (http://kohageek.blogspot.com/2015/08/move-old-koha-database-to-new.html).
When I upgrade the database schema everything seems to go well. When I run the reindex of Zebra everything seems to fail.
When I then goto the intra login page I can sign in with any old credentials, and when I sign in with the new ones created during installation I see:
Software error: Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/lib/perl5/DBI.pm line 2064.
Any help would be appreciated. I'm new to Koha, just trying to get things up to date. That's a big upgrade. You will get different opinions on this, but my advice is to export your bibliographic and patron data from the old koha and re-import the data to a new Koha (3.20 or 3.22). You might lose some historic data, but its often not valuable data anyway. You will need to amend your item records in a MARC editor - check the Koha to Marc Mapping for the Items table in your new Koha. I believe this will be much easier than going through the several stages required to achieve an upgrade.
Be sure to install your new Koha from the Debian packages. There are instructions for Ubuntu on the wiki. (You are much better advised to seek instruction from the Koha wiki and this list rather than stuff you find on the internet, which can rapidly become outdated. The Koha project moves very quickly.) My opinion. I hope it helps. Bob Birchall Calyx