Thanks, Mason. Are there some typical problems we should expect when we upgrade or does it vary? Also wondering if it would cause less problems to update to 3.4 or lower, then update again later. On Mar 6, 2012, at 3:03 AM, Mason James wrote:
On 2012-03-2, at 1:59 AM, Shelley & Kurt Kemperman wrote:
I work in a small school library. The school's computers run on an Apple server. When we installed Koha, the tech used a separate Dell server with Linux and connected it to the library Mac. The Dell server just died and I have some questions.
Our new IT guy found a link to download Koha to a Mac, but that is version 3.0 - we originally had version 2.9, but I know that Koha is up to 3.6 at this point. Is it recommended to download to a Mac
no, it's quite tricky, and very few people on the Koha-lists run Koha on OSX
We do not need the capability to connect to other libraries in a network, but I do use the z39.50 function to import MARC records. So, first ?, should we go with the Mac download or install a new Linux server/computer?
go linux, not osx/mac
Second ?, our Koha records were backed up using CrashPlan so hopefully we didn't lose anything. When we re-download Koha (whether on a Mac or with Linux), I would love to use an updated version. Are we going to have problems restoring the original data into an updated version?
you will have some problems, a Koha-2 to Koha-3 update is not straight-forward
only consider upgrading to the current stable version of Koha (3.6) when you have successfully restored your existing version Koha-2.9 on linux