Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:36:31 -0500 From: Robert Maynord <maynord@terracom.net> To: KOHA <koha@lists.katipo.co.nz> Subject: [Koha] upgrade from 1.3.2 to 2.0

Hello Koha Folks!

It is summer, and time for our school KOHA upgrade from 1.3.2 to 2.0! I have 2.0 installed and working on a new machine, and I have left the old 1.3.2 library machine in place -untouched- until I complete the transition - just to be sure the data is safe. My plan is to save the data on the old machine using mysqldump - then transfer it to the new machine.

IMH and not expert opinion I would (because I did so with some personnal datas) install a new 1.2.3 instance (using the sql dump) and run the upgrade with it.

I have been promising our librarian an upgrade for a year now -- any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Be really carefull with setting the MARC parameters because the job is very long and some of your datas may be lost if you don't match correctly MARC structure and KOHA structure before you run updatedb2marc.pl. When you finished setting MARC structure you should save it (2 tables : marc_tag_structure and marc_subfield_structure) in order to be able to start again the all process without suffering once again. Regards, Philippe