Greetings, Koha Community! I have a tech dilemma re: the Koha upgrade we're currently trying to implement.
The issue was recently brought to our attention by the lead "support" in our IT Department, Jovian. Jovian is pretty stellar with systems computing / working the back end of things for us; he set up our initial version of Koha (3.14) completely on his own, without a hitch. He's now prepared to help us set up the LATEST stable version of Koha (16.11, yes?), but he could use just a bit of advice from you fine folks, if anyone has any tips / information to offer... His recent messages to me are as follows: 1. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- *Currently we're running Koha 3.14 on Ubuntu 12..* *We understand the new modules and requirements for the newer releases and are looking to setup an Ubuntu 16 system with the latest version of Koha...* *What we would like to know is the best, recommended way of migrating the data from the old system to the new. I don't feel comfortable upgrading the Ubuntu 12 to 16 and maintaining its integrity.* *(**we do have a running Ubuntu 16 with the most current Koha build running fresh. Now we just need to migrate the data. We could do it manually... but key pointers may help)* ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- 2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *I created a backup and am currently importing it into the new Koha system.. it IS imported, but I'm running the schema upgrade. There have been some errors... so I don't know how it will all work out. The errors were due to duplicate entries and things like that so I'm not 100% on whether or not this is an issue... * *I will run the zebra index afterwards to clean up as much integrity as possible before letting you guys take a stab at the new one (assuming it will even load in the new system anymore...)* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *So I tried a straight update of the schema from that old version database to the new and there are just too many errors... duplicate entries, dirty data etc. that cause it to not roll over well. * *Patrons (or at least some) can still log in.. I can't login with the koha_library account... but the database of books didn't appear to copy over. More than likely there's some error in it that it just decided to not import any of it... * *We could try a manual import... but that would assume you could even login with your admin rights.* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could at least one of you out there lend your expertise and speak to the issues Jovian's encountering, and how we might resolve them? I'll be happy to put him in touch directly with a fellow Koha community member, if need be... Thanks in advance for the help, guys! Cheers, Sam --------------------------------------------------------- *Samuel Judson Crawford*, M.M., M.L.I.S. Academic Librarian Northern Marianas College P. O. Box 501250 Saipan, MP 96950 Phone | 670.237.6798 Fax | 670.234.0759 samuel.crawf...@marianas.edu -- Start Smart. Start at NMC. Visit the Northern Marianas College website at www.marianas.edu. <http://www.marianas.edu> This message and any attachments may contain proprietary and, or confidential information. Any review, reliance or distribution by others or forwarding without express permission is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha