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Hi all.

I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I want to start working towards upgrading a client site to 2.2 from 2.07. I have set up a Drupal 6 site on another server. I need to be able to transfer the current data over from the existing site, but it is a live site, so I can't be doing any upgrade scripts to it at the source.

Is it possible to install 2.07 on my test server, even though it is Drupal 6 (not Drupal 5 like the live current version), and then do the upgrade scripts? Or is there an easier (and faster) way? Could I just create a mysql database and do the scripts via phpmyadmin and then import it into the new 2.2 site?

Thanks,

Shrill

As far as I'm aware, the correct process is to upgrade first to 2.1, then to install 2.2.

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Installation+and+Upgrades has the official docs on this.

I would love to be able to skip the 2.1 step, but at this stage I don't think it's possible. I haven't checked if there's an issue open for this.

Have upgraded several 2.0 to 2.2 sites this way, and apart from being a little bit time-consuming (especially if you need to upload 2.1 via FTP just to run the updater and then replace it with 2.2, ugh) this worked fine. The only exception was a site where we'd made some customisations to the DB structure; it needed a spot of massage.

EDIT: As lobo says above, you'll need to install 2.1 on D6 anyway, not 2.0.

HTH

Create a mysql database and import my current 2.07 database into it.
Install 2.1, using the existing database (I don't think I need to upgrade it at all first?)
Then run the upgrade script aka update.php

Drupal's update.php won't update your CiviCRM DB. (In fact, you need to disable the CiviCRM module for this upgrade, then run the CiviCRM updater at http://example.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/install/upgrade.php?reset=1 by accessing CiviCRM's upgrade.php directly.)

Read and follow the instructions carefully: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC21/Upgrade+Drupal+Sites+to+2.1

At that point I can continue to upgrade to 2.2. Is that right?

This time the updater is located at http://example.com/civicrm/upgrade?reset=1 and CiviCRM needs to be enabled.

Read and follow the instructions carefully: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Upgrade+Drupal+Sites+to+2.2

Good luck! And good on you for taking the careful approach of upgrading CiviCRM into a separate DB, so that you can be confident of having a working copy of the previous version after the fact.