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Jump from 2.0 to 2.2.8
August 17, 2009, 08:01:26 am
I have Civi 2.0 running under Joomla 1.x on my old site, and want to move to Civi 2.2.8, which is running under Joomla 1.5x on the new site.

I'm going to use this opportunity to rethink some database organization decisions, so I'm planning to export and reimport my data -- which saves me from having to steadily upgrade it from version to version. But I'd like to keep some of the custom fields, contribution forms, groups and memberhip types I already have, rather than recreating them from scratch.

How can I tell which table structures have changed from 2.0 to 2.2.8, so I'll know what SQL tables can just be imported directly? Is there a good alternative to migrating my database through 20 separate steps to get from 2.0 to 2.2.8?

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Re: Jump from 2.0 to 2.2.8
August 17, 2009, 08:24:32 am
Never mind -- a little experimenting showed me that I can't just drop and add CiviCRM tables easily without running into all kinds of problems with one table being locked by another. Looks like my best bet is just to start from scratch, since I can probably just rebuild everything in the time it would take to run through the 20 missing upgrade steps.
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