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

[Alan Lord]

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