[Vtigercrm-developers] Migration steps [WAS: Re: Vtiger 6.2.0 official release]

[socialboostdk]

I agree - it would be *very* helpful, if we had better migration tools
available :-/



On 28 January 2015 at 17:06, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28/01/15 15:01, Matt Bracewell wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>> That would work if the migration from 5.x to 6.1 was any good.  Is there
>> general confidence in this operation or are we on our own?
>>
>
> I am in the process of migrating a client from a customised vtiger 5.3.0
> to 6.1.0 (well now it will be 6.2.0 I guess).
>
> In my experience, it's a tedious process:
>
> I have to migrate 3 times:
>
> 5.3.0 -> 5.4.0
> 5.4.0 -> 6.0.0
> 6.0.0 -> 6.1.0
> and now
> 6.1.0 -> 6.2.0
>
> Because it is a very large database I have to "fix" the migration scripts
> to stop them trying to create labels in crmentity (takes over 10 hours) and
> iterate pointlessly over the pbxmanager table for a similar time...
>
> For developers perspective, it would be a *massive* help if the migration
> scripts could be run and managed from the command line as opposed to via a
> web browser without needing to be hacked first.
>
> Cheers
>
> Al
>
>
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