[Koha] Migrating from 2.2.9 to 3.00.01 once more

[Marty]

Thank you, I will try again.  It still does seem rather convoluted. I tried and had the patrons working but could not search, every search resulted in "no items found". But, eventually I will get it, I think....


--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Olugbenga Adara <gbengaadara at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Olugbenga Adara <gbengaadara at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Migrating from 2.2.9 to 3.00.01 once more
> To: ontariowolf64 at yahoo.com
> Cc: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 2:20 AM
> --- On Mon, 3/2/09, Marty <ontariowolf64 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Marty <ontariowolf64 at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [Koha] Migrating from 2.2.9 to 3.00.01 once
> more
> > To: "koha koha"
> <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>
> > Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 6:45 PM
> > I have Koha 3.00.01 up and running on my new old box,
> yeah!
> > But I am really confused as how to migrate my data
> from the
> > 2.2.9 database.
> > (I screwed it up once already before my other box
> died)
> > I know there is a Wiki
> > (http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30) but I
> cannot say
> > that is really helpful for me.
> > Like: installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl this
> script
> > will finish the update of the database. Which
> database?
> > There is nothing in the koha3 database yet? Do I
> update my
> > old database? Does that move my data?
> 
> I recently did an upgrade following the docs on the wiki.
> 
> Since you have successfully installed 3.01, just backup
> your 3.01 koha database, drop all the tables in the koha
> 3.01 database (you can use phpmyadmin) then restore your
> 2.2.9 database tables into the 3.01. Then follow the wiki
> from the updatedatabase.pl script.
> 
> At the end of the upgrade (after running all the scripts
> & commands in the 22_to_30 wiki page) you may need to
> check your system preferences. There were several that were
> missing in my own install after upgrade. i just recreated
> them. You may also need to check that your marc framework is
> ok.
> 
> I hope this helps
> 
> > 
> > It seems that this Wiki is left over from the Beta
> version?
> > 
> > In short, I am confused (I am easily confused). Can
> > somebody just tell me how to get my data (biblios,
> items,
> > patrons et al) from 2.2.9 to 3.00.01?
> > It can't be that hard, I think?
> > 
> 
> Yes, it's not that hard. :-)
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> 
> Olugbenga Adara