Hi Tim, Thanks very much for detailed explanation and definitely I will follow your advise and not copy files to new downloaded DSpace 6.x as you metioned there is several changes and it is better to upgrade normaly and do customizations manually. On stats when I read upgrade steps there is no where I saw detailing even after installation is completed how to copy dspace4.3install/webapps/solr to new dspace6.2install/webapps/solr is this process going to happen automatically like it is happening on discovery, in all the upgrade i have done, there is no one occasion where I have managed to upgrade and have previous statistics, everytime we started from that month of upgrade and that is not well on my side because old stats should be reused.
I am not using Git or SVN. Regards, Lewatle On Tuesday, 12 September 2017 16:25:47 UTC+2, Tim Donohue wrote: > > Hi Lewatle, > > You should be very careful about copying custom code from 4.x to 6.x, as > both the webapps and the Java API have changed quite a bit between those > releases. So, I worry that simply copying everything from your dspace 4.x > webapps into your DSpace 6 codebase would result in a large number of > errors. DSpace code is constantly improving, so if you simply copy all > your files from an old version of DSpace, that old code is not guaranteed > to work with a much newer version of DSpace. > > Instead, assuming you are using a code repository (like Git or SVN), you > may want to either perform a code merge, or generate a diff/patch (from > your 4.3 site), so that you can only reapply the customizations you've made > to the 6.x site. If the customizations are minimal (e.g. header/footer/css > changes), you may end up better off simply upgrading to out-of-the-box > DSpace 6, and then manually reapplying your customizations after the > initial upgrade is found to be successful. > > The upgrade process itself should take care of moving forward any > statistics you have had previously. So, as long as you are upgrading on the > same server, you should be able to just follow the normal upgrade process > documented at: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Upgrading+DSpace > > Since you've made customizations, I highly recommend testing your upgrade > process on a test server. That way you can work out any issues on that test > server before attempting it on Production (and you won't have to worry so > much if you hit a bump in the road, as you'll have time to resolve it > without affecting your Production site). > > Good luck. If you hit more specific issues during your test of the > upgrade, feel free to email this mailing list or use on of the other > support options available: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Support > > - Tim > > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 5:01 AM Lewatle Johannes Phaladi < > joem...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Dear DSpace Team, >> >> I am going to be upgrading soon to version 6.x and I have done most >> customizations on test site, the only last stage I haven't done yet is on >> migrating statisctics and keep on having previous usage stats going forward. >> >> please rectify me on this steps if i am getting it wrong: >> I would copy all customizations from webbapps directory as follows >> $ cp -R dspace4.3/webapps to >> /dspace-6.2-src-release/dspace/modules/jspui/src/main/ >> then run /dspace-6.2-src-release/dspace$ mvn package >> and also /dspace-6.2-src-release/dspace/target/dspace-installer/$ ant >> update >> >> will the above process be able to re-use old stats to the new >> installation ? >> >> Regards, >> Lewatle >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "DSpace Technical Support" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to dspace-tech...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to dspac...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > > Tim Donohue > Technical Lead for DSpace & DSpaceDirect > DuraSpace.org | DSpace.org | DSpaceDirect.org > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to dspace-tech@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
