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I'm attempting to migrate an existing install of civicrm 2.0.3 to 3.2.3 on another server.  The old install has a number of members, donation forms and other custom configuration.  I did not set it up so I don't know exactly what may have been configured.   I'm wondering if someone more familiar with civicrm has any suggestions for the best way to go about this.  I thought about creating a perl script or just doing a mysqldump to pull the records out of the old database and insert them into the new, but I don't know the schema well enough and how its changed from version 2.0.3 to 3.2.3 to know the feasibility of this.  The other consideration is that I'm taking the records from a standalone setup and importing them into a multi-org setup and I'm not sure what I'd have to do to account for that.   Any suggestions GREATLY appreciated!

@devfloppy,

I have no experience with multi-org, but my waters tell me that it would be best to do that after the upgrade to 3.2. I've looked through the multi-org posts on this forum, and those folks seem to have a bunch of issues,

Ken

Thanks so much for the info.  I think the upgrade path makes sense, but I'm not sure about one thing.  Currently this site is hosted such that its using its own drupal and civicrm install.  The new host is using a shared hosting setup so that in theory CiviCRM module would be shared by several independent drupal sites.  This is the first one that I'm importing so other than knowing about civicrm_domains, I'm not sure how the data is stored so that each drupal site has its own data available only to itself and not to everyone else.