[Koha] Migrating Koha Servers

[Aswin Unnikrishnan]

Hi Charles,

Im also fairly new to koha so ill try to answer to the extent of my
knowledge.
1. You can find all the details about your database if you check towards
the end of the koha-conf.xml file that will be present at
/etc/koha/sites/KOHA_INSTANCE/koha-conf.xml , where KOHA_INSTANCE is your
koha instance name. details will be under <config> tag.
2. It doesn't matter if the database is mysql or mariadB. both are the same
and you can use the same commands for both.
3. No . "koha_library" is used as an example. In most cases, you have to
change "library" with your instance name. so if your instance name is
"ASDLIB" it should be koha_ASDLIB
4,5. I'm not exactly sure about Elastic search, but  ElasticSearch and
Zebra are 2 search engines that can be used with koha. ElasticSearch is
fairly newer if I'm right, and still not incorporated into all parts of
koha, and zebra is the default search engine that koha uses. So you need
either ElasticSearch or Zebra, if you want to search for a book in your
OPAC and get the results.

Thanks


On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 at 17:05, Charles Kelley <cmkelleymls at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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