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 <[email protected]> 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 the internet, which can rapidly become outdated.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 > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
