[Koha] Transfering data from Koha 2.2.9 to Koha 3.00.00

[Olugbenga Adara]

Hello all,

i will actually be upgrading koha 2.2.9 to 3.0 soon and i've often wondered about the best way. Assuming you do a fresh install of 3.0 and then export out patron records and the bibs in marc format, how about the circulation and acquisition data and other template customizations?

by the way it's a marc21 installation. Will the migrate scripts below work?

Olugbenga Adara MCP
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Ibadan, Nigeria.
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--- On Wed, 1/28/09, Joe Atzberger <ohiocore at gmail.com> wrote:


> 
> Did you see the scripts in the directory:
> misc/migration_tools/22_to_30/
> ?
> 
> I'm not sure how much those will help you since they
> seem geared mainly to
> UNIMARC.
> 
> Patron import should be straight forward enough using CSV
> in the web
> interface.  It now reports back with a lot more verbosity
> when it finds
> problems.
> 
> As for the biblio records, I'm not sure if there is a
> slicker way to do it,
> but like a normal (non-Koha) migration, I would just look
> to dump all the
> MARC out of your database and load it in the new one.  You
> might want to use
> MARC::Lint, marcedit or another tool to do some analysis
> and possible
> cleanup while you're looking at all the data in a flat
> file anyway.
> 
> --Joe
> 
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Marty
> <ontariowolf64 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > After some playing with databases I have Koha 3 up and
> running. Hurray! And
> > thanks to Owen Leonard and Mason James!
> >
> > It all sems to work fine, entered some patrons and
> books manually to test,
> > even the z39.50 search works wonderful.
> >
> > However, i would have liked the next step to be
> easier, I get error upon
> > error trying to import any data from Koha 2.2.9.
> Having started at I think
> > Koha 2.2.7, all updates were rather seamless.
> Apparently it is not as
> > straightforward with a new release... Is there any
> place with examples on
> > how to get data from a previous version into Koha 3? I
> did a few searches,
> > but most of them, if not all, seem to be concerned
> mainly with the
> > installation of Koha 3. At the moment I cannot even
> get the patrons loaded
> > from a CSV file, never mind the biblios, and even if
> we are a small library
> > 6000 items and 800 patrons is a bit too much to do by
> hand...
> >
> > Thanks again, Marty
> >
> >
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