Hello Adigun, Yes, that is correct. DSpace will automatically upgrade the database structure if you point a new version at an old version (see the Upgrade docs for more on that). And, the assetstore folder structure has been the same since 1.0. So, you can install a fresh copy of DSpace, and copy over the assetstore folder and point it at an old database -- and that will result in an upgraded DSpace. Obviously, configuration changes and User Interface customizations are *not* automated, so you'd have to redo those, or pull those over in a more manual fashion.
See the Upgrade docs for more info: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Upgrading+DSpace Upgrading DSpace - DSpace 6.x Documentation - DuraSpace<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Upgrading+DSpace> With the addition of our automated database upgrades, we highly recommend AGAINST customizing the DSpace database tables/structure or backporting any features that change the DSpace tables/structure.Doing so will often cause the automated database upgrade process to fail (and therefore will complicate your next upgrade). wiki.duraspace.org Tim ________________________________ From: 'Adigun Samuel Akinwale' via DSpace Technical Support <dspace-tech@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 6:50 AM To: DSpace Technical Support Subject: Re: [dspace-tech] Bringup Dspace 6.3 from old contents of Dspace 4.2 Thank Mr. Tim, Do you mean that to upgrade Dspace one can copy both the accessstore and database into a fresh higher installation and it will work?. I know in koha once can copy the database to a fresh higher installation but needs to run upgrade scripts to upgrade the database. Thanks On Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 7:40:21 PM UTC+2, Tim Donohue wrote: Hello, DSpace 6.3 supports upgrading from any prior version of DSpace. So, you should not need to use any special import process, provided that you were able to retain a copy of the main [dspace] folder (especially the "assetstore") and retain a copy of the database (where all the metadata is stored). Here's the DSpace 6.x upgrade instructions, and these should work fine when pointed at a database from DSpace 4.x and an old [dspace] folder. https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Upgrading+DSpace If you have more specific questions, let us know on this mailing list. Tim On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 7:40 AM Yesudian <jyes...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Greeting to you. In our college, we were using DSpace 4.2 on Ubuntu 14.04. Because of some unknown hardware failures, we could not boot into the system. But we could take the copy of the $DSPACE folder with contents. (Please see the attachment) Now, we have installed Ubuntu 18.04 and brought up DSpace 6.3. Would you tell us the set of procedures for us to import the old Dspace 4.2 into Dspace 6.3? Regards Yesudian Rajkumar -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- 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 dspac...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/2940f325-7e2f-4558-87f5-3b31e5670856%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/2940f325-7e2f-4558-87f5-3b31e5670856%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- Tim Donohue Technical Lead for DSpace & DSpaceDirect DuraSpace.org | DSpace.org | DSpaceDirect.org -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- 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<mailto:dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/e11e0922-0f17-485c-95ad-203f8a3be8a9%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/e11e0922-0f17-485c-95ad-203f8a3be8a9%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/DM5PR22MB05729AD15A802ACF92856B9FEDC90%40DM5PR22MB0572.namprd22.prod.outlook.com.
