[Koha] transferring information

[Zeno Tajoli]

Dear Suzanne,

At 20.46 21/05/2008, Suzanne Gilbert wrote:
>Does anyone know if there is a way to transfer all the books I have on
>our old, really old, version of KOHA computer to the new 3.0 version
>that our IT guy installed on another computer.  He said the version we
>are using now is so old that he couldn't just update it.
>I hate to think that I will have to input every book again.
>Our IT guy is excellent, but knows almost nothing about  library stuff.
>I know nothing about computers.

in a discussion done on this list in 07-May-2008
Judith C. Saulle  and Steve Bradwell spoked about
upgrade from Koha 1.3 to 2.2.9 (last stable).
See: http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2008-May/013816.html

In general one have two way:
1)
-Export biblio, authority, holdings and user data from old version
-Import in the new one
You loose system configuration, patron activities, budget 
information, serial prediction patteners
You need to use marc import/export tool and SQL for user data.
It is the easier way

2)
Upgrade passing every version. It is more long and more complicate. 
In theory you don't
loose anything.

Bye


Zeno Tajoli
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