[Koha] Koha upgrade from 3.2 to 19.05

[Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Library]

Dear Joel,

Thank you for your quick answer ! Do you have any tutorials/links to
suggest me to make the upgrade successful ?

Best,
Walid

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 9:52 AM Coehoorn, Joel <jcoehoorn at york.edu> wrote:

> 3.2 is **very** old now... going back to at least 2012 if not further.
>
> Koha is designed to be updated in place, in smaller increments at a time.
> You will find this larger jump exceedingly difficult. It will almost
> certainly break things for you, but going back that far it's impossible for
> me to say what.
>
> If you're using the debian packages, you **might** be able to slow this
> down by carefully controlling the debian apt repository targets, such that
> you only do a version or two at a time. Then you could check through things
> at a each jump and take a backup before moving to the next. That will take
> much longer, but it should at least be safer and a little more reliable. If
> that's even still possible.
>
> To avoid this situation in the future, it's much better to upgrade **at
> least** once every other year.
>
> Joel Coehoorn
> Director of Information Technology
> 402.363.5603
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>
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>
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>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 8:46 AM Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Library <
> library at sqcc.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Our library is planning to upgrade Koha from the version 3.2 to 19.05
>> (latest).
>>
>> Could you please give us a complete tutorial, system requirements, and the
>> things we have to do (backup ?, etc,) before starting the upgrade.
>>
>> Is it possible to upgrade directly from 3.2 to 19.05 ? or we have to
>> upgrade to lower versions before?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Walid
>>
>>
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*Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Library*
1100 16th St, NW
Washington, DC 20036
library at sqcc.org
202-677-3967, x104