[Koha] Upgrade from Koha 3.08.07

[Nigel Titley]

On 09/09/2020 15:34, Nigel Titley wrote:
> I'm running an extremely antique version of Koha 3.08.07 on Debian Squeeze.
> 
> For various reasons (mainly the fact that the system is enormously
> stable) nothing has been upgraded for a long while but it's getting to
> the point where I need to upgrade it. I'm planning at the same time to
> move Koha off onto a new system running the latest Ubuntu LTS. I'm happy
> with installing a brand-new Koha but how do I go about transferring the
> data. I've found instructions for shifting the database but will the
> database schema upgrade work with that huge a jump? It's not a huge
> library, just a couple of thousand books.
> 
> Thanks for any help that anyone can offer.

And answering my own question, it looks like it might be possible to
export the book inventory in MARC format and the Patrons as a CSV file.
And possibly the transactions in an offline format? If the worst comes
to the worst I can lose the transactions.

Does that sound like a plan?

Nigel