[Koha] Transfering data from Koha 2.2.9 to Koha 3.00.00

[Weinheimer Jim]

I'm trying to upgrade from 2.2.7 to 3.0, and  the biblio and biblioitem numbers change. I also need to clean up my database because the first install didn't go too well.

Jim Weinheimer
American University of Rome


> 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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> 
> --- 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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