[Koha] Conver Koha 2.2.5 database to 3.2.2

[Jesse Lambertson]

Wow, it is good to hear these stories of positive MASSIVE upgrade scenarios
in Koha.

 - that there are work-arounds with the data
 - that the new instances are responsive

I personally need to investigate the Koha to MARC mapping more (
http://translate.koha-community.org/manual/3.20/en/html-desktop/#kohamarcmapping
).
We're running 3.20 currently and hopefully will not have such a severe
upgrade when we do. But still...

Thank you for sharing.
Happy Almost Friday!

Jesse

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Joy Nelson <joy at bywatersolutions.com>
wrote:

> 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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