[Koha] Conver Koha 2.2.5 database to 3.2.2

[Joy Nelson]

I give a third to that idea.  I moved a 2.2 to 3.16 by trying to upgrade
the database.  It wasn't the prettiest thing to do and the results were
so-so.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Indranil Das Gupta <indradg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>
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