I give a third to that idea. I moved a 2.2 to 3.16 by trying to upgrade the database. It wasn't the prettiest thing to do and the results were so-so.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Indranil Das Gupta <indr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I second Bob's opinion. Last month I migrated a 2.2.9 db to 3.20.x. > Had to take that route. > > cheers, > -idg > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Bob Birchall <b...@calyx.net.au> wrote: > > On 18/02/16 08:16, jre18 wrote: > >> > >> Hello I am looking for a little direction/instruction. > >> > >> We currently have a very old Koha server (2.2.5) running on Ubuntu > 6.06.1 > >> LTS. > >> > >> I have built a new Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS server and would like to install > >> Koha > >> there and import my databases from the old server. The version of Koha > >> that > >> I have installed is now 3.2.2 on this new server. > >> > >> How do I get the database information imported there to get the new > server > >> up and running? > >> > >> I tried following the instrcutions here but it did not work > >> ( > http://kohageek.blogspot.com/2015/08/move-old-koha-database-to-new.html). > >> > >> When I upgrade the database schema everything seems to go well. When I > >> run > >> the reindex of Zebra everything seems to fail. > >> > >> When I then goto the intra login page I can sign in with any old > >> credentials, and when I sign in with the new ones created during > >> installation I see: > >> > >> Software error: > >> Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at > >> /usr/lib/perl5/DBI.pm > >> line 2064. > >> > >> Any help would be appreciated. I'm new to Koha, just trying to get > things > >> up to date. > > > > That's a big upgrade. You will get different opinions on this, but my > > advice is to export your bibliographic and patron data from the old koha > and > > re-import the data to a new Koha (3.20 or 3.22). You might lose some > > historic data, but its often not valuable data anyway. You will need to > > amend your item records in a MARC editor - check the Koha to Marc Mapping > > for the Items table in your new Koha. I believe this will be much easier > > than going through the several stages required to achieve an upgrade. > > > > Be sure to install your new Koha from the Debian packages. There are > > instructions for Ubuntu on the wiki. (You are much better advised to > seek > > instruction from the Koha wiki and this list rather than stuff you find > on > > the internet, which can rapidly become outdated. The Koha project moves > > very quickly.) > > > > My opinion. I hope it helps. > > > > Bob Birchall > > Calyx > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > > > > -- > Indranil Das Gupta > > Phone : +91-98300-20971 > Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog > IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net > Twitter : indradg > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other > format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. > > For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - > http://www.documentfoundation.org > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha