[Koha] Importing Koha Database to a new install

[David Nind]

Hi Phillip.

I've not upgraded from a pre-3.04 version of Koha before, so can only go on
what is on the wiki/install instructions.  Someone else on the list may be
able to confirm, or not, whether this is the correct way..

You would do this after you have loaded the old database into your new
server i.e. you've setup the new version and it is working, delete the
database (or rename), load in the database dump from your old version.

I think the script is run after you have accessed the administration site
(the intranet) for the first time, as it needs to run some other database
updates.

The instructions mentioned are here:
http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob;f=INSTALL;hb=HEAD

It also looks like there is a handy script to do this for you when you have
installed by packages - *koha-upgrade-to-3.4* .  See:
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages#Upgrade_Instructions
http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Commands_provided_by_the_Debian_packages#koha-upgrade-to-3.4



On 23 December 2013 09:03, Phillip Ponchot <pponchot at live.com> wrote:

> David,
>
> I'm new to Koha and to the Koha site so I can't seem to find the
> instructions  from 3.0 to 3.4.    My question would be how I would do these
> steps.
>
> One question I have is should I load the old database into the new version
> and then run the steps in 101 and 102 or do I do this before I export the
> database?
>
> Could you send me the link to the instructions that you found below?
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 07:58:35 +1300
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Importing Koha Database to a new install
> From: david.nind at gmail.com
> To: pponchot at live.com
> CC: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>
>
> Hi Phillip.
>
> I think I've figured out what's up.  I managed to determine that the Koha
> database is from Koha version 3.00.00.107 and the version that I've
> installed by default is 3.14.00.000.  This means that the database is
> extremely out of date and can not be "imported" without transforming some
> of the data.
>
>
> From the manual installation instructions when updating from a 3.0-3.3 to
> version 3.4 or later:
>
> 96 Koha 3.4.x or later  no longer stores items in biblio records.
> 97 If you are upgrading from an older version ou will need to do the
> 98 following two steps, they can take a long time (several hours) to
> 99 complete for large databases
> 100
> 101  misc/maintenance/remove_items_from_biblioitems.pl --run
> 102  misc/migration_tools/rebuild_zebra.pl -b -r
>
> http://git.koha-community.org/gitweb/?p=koha.git;a=blob;f=INSTALL;hb=HEAD
>
> Also see 8-):
> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2013-December/038228.html
>



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