Our budget has finally allowed me a new "all singing, all dancing" server and it has physically arrived. Two questions if I may -- and if I'm off topic, plz say so: 1) The system (Ubuntu 11.04) is being installed on a SSD (solid state drive) which recommends keeping "writes" to a minimum for longevity. This obviously includes logs, etc, but not necessarily the sql database. A quick "find / -iname" on the sandbox (Koha 3.02.05.000) for '*koha*' is enormous. Does anyone have to hand a list of "system" versus "run-time" directories and files? I'm particularly curious about Zebra (which I do not fully understand) as it appears to be proliferous and ubiquitous. 2) I have stabilized a partially customized Koha 3.2.5 which is close to meeting our needs. Koha 3.4 would be my choice on the new server (and I'm not worried about cosmetics -- CSS, etc) but how bullet-proof is the data conversion (as of now about 80,000 records)? I truly want Koha to be our long term data solution for our holdings, but am still wet behind the ears with Koha, so all help would be appreciated. Many thanks in advance for all suggestions. Paul Tired old sys-admin
Paul schreef op vr 26-08-2011 om 17:39 [-0400]:
1) The system (Ubuntu 11.04) is being installed on a SSD (solid state drive) which recommends keeping "writes" to a minimum for longevity. This obviously includes logs, etc, but not necessarily the sql database.
You aren't going to use up the write limit of a decent SSD any time soon.
Does anyone have to hand a list of "system" versus "run-time" directories and files? I'm particularly curious about Zebra (which I do not fully understand) as it appears to be proliferous and ubiquitous.
It depends how you install it. For the packages, all the changable stuff goes in /var/lib/koha (zebra databases are in here), and /var/lib/mysql if you use a local database. There's also /var/log/koha and /var/spool/koha. But everything outside of /var is pretty static.
2) I have stabilized a partially customized Koha 3.2.5 which is close to meeting our needs. Koha 3.4 would be my choice on the new server (and I'm not worried about cosmetics -- CSS, etc) but how bullet-proof is the data conversion (as of now about 80,000 records)?
80,000 isn't that big :) I'd say try it and find out, I've not noticed many upgrade issues. Just keep a backup, but that's good advice anyway. Also, upgrading to 3.4 will make you update your customisations, which is good to do anyway. -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C EB6D
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