...and searching my old email...I found: from : Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com> "I suggest you create an empty instance named the same as the 'old one', so all configuration files are fresh. Then adjust apache and friends, rsync the /var/lib/koha/<instance> dir, load a DB dump and run koha-upgrade-schema <instance>" This is from a few months ago.... but I'm assuming the information is still valid .... so I think I have answered my own questions. Thanks for reading. -S On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 8:35 AM Scott Owen <sowen@almaschools.net> wrote:
Hi all,
I am in the process of upgrading my Koha instances to a newer version.
Due to the age of the current version, I am going to have to do a database dump / restore
I am following the basic Debian install (at the wiki https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian ) and have just installed the mariadb-server. (I tried the MySQL but the install said the MySql-server package wasn't available ?? I'm assuming this is by design)
Before I continue with the "defaults", setup Apache, and create a Koha instance, I was wondering if there are any steps I should take at this time, if I intend to restore a database on the instance? Should I make sure the names are the same ?? or should I make sure to NOT name the db instances (library name) the same ? Does it matter ?
Should I continue and do a complete Koha instance install ?? or is this not required if I am going to dump a db onto this server?
Thank you for any insight / advice.
-S