On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 08:05:12AM -0800, Brian Friday wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2010, at 1:16 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Why am I bothering with rt2 on FC6? It's because we have an old rt2 > > database. I'd like to be able to view it before thinking about exporting it > > to rt3 or another environment. The original hardware this rt2 ran on was > > decommissioned, and is long gone. > > As Gary said, go with CentOS 3 you should be able to get iso's and you will > save yourself a world of headaches. > > Also note that you need to get the RT module dependencies specific to the > version of RT 2.0.X that you are running. The backpan.perl.org website will > likely be highly useful to use for this need. My experience has been that if > you use any new modules you take the considerable risk of not actually being > able to export your data properly. > > You will also want to use the rt2 to rt3 migration tools > http://search.cpan.org/~falcone/RT-Extension-RT2toRT3-1.26/
In addition, you might find the patches at http://github.com/jmdh/rt2-to-rt3 helpful if you're migrating to RT3.8. (note that these haven't been fully reviewed by Best Practical; use at your own risk). -- Dominic Hargreaves, Systems Development and Support Team Computing Services, University of Oxford
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