[Koha] Migrating Koha Servers

[Charles Kelley]

My library is migrating its Koha database to a new server. I have found
instructions on both YouTube and static sources. But the instructions are
not perfectly clear to me and I have a few questions.

(1) How do you find out the password to MySQL?

(2) Does it matter whether you are running MySQL or MariaDB?

(3) Is "koha_library" a fixed phrase? Or is it the name of the Koha
instance you are migrating, e.g., if your library is named ASDLIB, do you
use "koha_library" or "ASDLIB"?

(4) If you are running ElasticSearch, are there complications and if so,
what are they and their solutions?

(5) How does Zebra factor into all this?

I'm trying to avoid

* reentering frameworks;

* downloading MRC files of the authority records and bibliographic records
and uploading them into the new server because of suspected linkage
problems between the authority records and $9 subfields in the
bibliographic records;

* reentering system preferences;
* reentering patron information; and so forth.

Thank you very much.

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