[Koha] Upgrade from Koha 3.08.07

[Alex Shepherd]

Thanks Nigel for reporting your success. I have an upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 / Koha 17.11 and wonder about such things. In need to clone my VM and try and upgrade but I’ve been putting t off...

Your success of a much harder upgrade is very encouraging.

Regards
Alex Shepherd

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> On 10/09/2020, at 5:14 AM, Nigel Titley <nigel at titley.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 09/09/2020 17:24, Nigel Titley wrote:
>> 
>>> 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?
>> 
>> And answering my own question again it looks like that all I have to do
>> is dump the database on the old machine, copy it across and install it
>> on the new machine. The schema upgrade *should* be able to cope as I'm
>> running a koha instance later than 3.4
> 
> And this indeed worked... so everyone please ignore my witterings. The
> procedure I followed was
> 
> 1. Install latest koha on the new machine
> 2. Use mysqldump to dump the whole koha database on the old machine
> 3. Copy across to new machine
> 4. Use "koha-create --create-db <library>" to create a koha instance on
> the new machine
> 5. Drop the new empty database <koha_library> created by step 4
> 6. Create a new empty database <koha_library>
> 7. Use mysql to import the dump you made in step 2 into <koha_library>
> 8. Run koha-upgrade-schema <library>
> 9. Run koha-rebuild-zebra -v -f <library>
> 10. Restart apache (possibly not necessary but doesn't do any harm)
> 
> I now seem to have a fully functional new koha on a new machine
> 
> Thanks everyone (I know no one said anything but you were all there in
> spirit)
> 
> Nigel
> 
> 
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