[Koha] Conver Koha 2.2.5 database to 3.2.2

[Indranil Das Gupta]

I second Bob's opinion. Last month I migrated a 2.2.9 db to 3.20.x.
Had to take that route.

cheers,
-idg

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Bob Birchall <bob at calyx.net.au> wrote:
> On 18/02/16 08:16, jre18 wrote:
>>
>> Hello I am looking for a little direction/instruction.
>>
>> We currently have a very old Koha server (2.2.5) running on Ubuntu 6.06.1
>> LTS.
>>
>> I have built a new Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS server and would like to install
>> Koha
>> there and import my databases from the old server.  The version of Koha
>> that
>> I have installed is now 3.2.2 on this new server.
>>
>> How do I get the database information imported there to get the new server
>> up and running?
>>
>> I tried following the instrcutions here but it did not work
>> (http://kohageek.blogspot.com/2015/08/move-old-koha-database-to-new.html).
>>
>> When I upgrade the database schema everything seems to go well.  When I
>> run
>> the reindex of Zebra everything seems to fail.
>>
>> When I then goto the intra login page I can sign in with any old
>> credentials, and when I sign in with the new ones created during
>> installation I see:
>>
>> Software error:
>> Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at
>> /usr/lib/perl5/DBI.pm
>> line 2064.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.  I'm new to Koha, just trying to get things
>> up to date.
>
> That's a big upgrade.  You will get different opinions on this, but my
> advice is to export your bibliographic and patron data from the old koha and
> re-import the data to a new Koha (3.20 or 3.22).  You might lose some
> historic data, but its often not valuable data anyway.  You will need to
> amend your item records in a MARC editor - check the Koha to Marc Mapping
> for the Items table in your new Koha.  I believe this will be much easier
> than going through the several stages required to achieve an upgrade.
>
> Be sure to install your new Koha from the Debian packages.  There are
> instructions for Ubuntu on the wiki.  (You are much better advised to seek
> instruction from the Koha wiki and this list rather than stuff you find on
> the internet, which can rapidly become outdated.  The Koha project moves
> very quickly.)
>
> My opinion.  I hope it helps.
>
> Bob Birchall
> Calyx
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