Author Topic: help, need to do a big jump upgrade (Read 1245 times)

nunodonato · June 27, 2009, 03:00:46 am

Hello everyone,

I'm running a project for a NGO which is using CiviCRM (v1.

.
We know that we are now missing many nice features and fixes, and would like to upgrade it to the current stable version.

Some time ago I tried to simulate the upgrade in a local copy of the website, but couldnt get past the first upgrades due to too many errors.

I was wondering if instead of doing so many incremental upgrades we could just install a new drupal (still running drupal 5 for now), new civicrm, and then import the contacts. what we really need is to maintain the membership, contributions and relationships data.

thank you very much for your help

kind regards,
Nuno

Chris Burgess · June 27, 2009, 06:02:45 pm

You don't say what 1.x version you're using, but you should be able to export and then import all of that information into a current CiviCRM. I can tell you that the import facilities should support that path well in 2.0 or 2.2.

I would advise moving straight to 2.2, though, even though it requires Drupal 6. There are a lot of good improvements and you'll be in a much better position to get to more recent releases from there.

Currently, you'd have to take two extra steps - upgrade to D6/C2.1, then upgrade again to C2.2 - to get from your current goal to any later CiviCRM release. Unless you're really tied to Drupal 5 for some reason, this will save you a lot of effort in the (hopefully near!) future.

nunodonato · June 28, 2009, 12:52:22 am

I'm on 1.8 with Drupal 5, but yes, I will move to D6 and 2.2
I just didnt get how to export all that data from 1.8. I can export the contacts, but I loose the relationships, memberships and contributions... How to do it?

If after it I do a clean install to import the data, can't I do it straight to 2.2? Why to 2.1 first?
thanks

Donald Lobo · June 28, 2009, 10:24:29 pm

I would recommend following the upgrade steps and upgrading from 1.8 -> 1.9 -> 2.0 -> 2.1 -> 2.2

lobo

nunodonato · June 30, 2009, 10:44:27 am

hi
today I attempted again to upgrade to 2.2, but with no success.
I'm running this site from a shared hosting account, so its really difficult to upgrade as I have to do everything via phpmyadmin and etc.
anyway, again i get errors which I have no idea how to solve, and now the website is down

i'm getting a bit desperate here on how to upgrade like this. is there really no other way to start from scratch with 2.2 and load the data?

thanks

PS - following this guide: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC21/Upgrade+Drupal+Sites+to+2.0
i got stuck where it said:
# Create a new empty database. We'll call it civicrm19Fix for this example.
# Load the 1.9 table structure into this new database by sourcing civicrm/sql/civicrm_41.mysql (in your existing 1.9 codebase).

i dont have the 1.9 codebase (only 2.2 for download), so i dont have a file with that name. i just used the civicrm.mysql
could that be the problem?

Dave Greenberg · June 30, 2009, 12:55:22 pm

Distribution packages for older CiviCRM releases (down to 1.5) are available from Sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/civicrm/files/

Scroll down the page to the latest 1.9 package.

You definitely need to use civicrm.mysql from the 1.9 distribution for that step in the upgrade!

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