[Koha-devel] Cataloguing authorities 3.6/3.8
Mark Tompsett
mtompset at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 26 18:42:50 CEST 2012
Greetings,
> Anyway, I'm about to start a complete new install (o/s + 3.8.4) on the
> sandbox to test how I can "fix" the production server
This would be a great opportunity to do a packages or git installation.
You only have to get the data from the live machine:
$ mysqldump -u {the user name} -p {the koha database name} >
PleaseTryIt.sql
And transfer the data into the instance database, or git database before
doing the web install.
A git install is similar to a tarball install (you still get to name your
database whatever you'd like, and still have those nasty long building
sequences), and if you search bugzilla for patches, you can see if your
problem has already been fixed with a patch that someone else provided. If
it is, then you can apply the patch on the live system (after testing on
your sandbox) -- without you having to figure out how to do it yourself.
BTW, more problems were fixed in 3.8.5, and a packages installation on your
sandbox would be good practice for doing an upgrade from tarball to packages
in live. Upgrades become so much easier, and the down time is mostly
reindexing.
Just trying to suggest something to save you headaches in the future, like
the one you are having now because you said you wanted the headaches and
didn't want to try the suggestion before.
GPML,
Mark Tompsett
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