https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=42658 --- Comment #1 from Nick Clemens (kidclamp) <nick@bywatersolutions.com> --- Created attachment 199357 --> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/attachment.cgi?id=199357&action=edit Bug 42658: Add id_match option to bulkmarcimport.pl This patch adds a en option id_match which will use the incoming biblionumber to find the exsting record in the DB To test: 1 - Cataloging -> Export catalog data 2 - From records 1 to 439, export the entire KTD database, or a subset if you have larger DB the important thing is to have biblionumbers 3 - perl misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl -b -match Local-number,999c -file kohatdall.mrc --update --si -v 4 - Confirm this worked as expected, note the time taken, I checked the record timestamps to confirm they were updated SELECT biblionumber,timestamp FROM biblio; 5 - Apply patch 6 - perl misc/migration_tools/bulkmarcimport.pl -b -match Local-number,999c -file kohatdall.mrc --update --si -v -im 7 - Confirm less time taken and things worked as expected 8 - Sign off -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug.