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Title: Backup and restore of Horde across versions
Post by: edform on December 16, 2008, 03:06:03 PM
I have a client company that has been using the Kronolith calendar for several years now and I've just bought them a new server on which I've installed SME v7.4. I'm now faced with the task of transferring their calendars which are in an older version of Horde. How would folks recommend that I do this?

Can I just dump the database and restore it on the new machine, or would I be better off exporting each of the diaries and importing them into the clean, latest-version Horde install on the new server?

Ed Form

Title: Re: Backup and restore of Horde across versions
Post by: edform on December 17, 2008, 08:37:58 PM
Quote from: edform on December 16, 2008, 03:06:03 PM
Can I just dump the database and restore it on the new machine, or would I be better off exporting each of the diaries and importing them into the clean, latest-version Horde install on the new server?

Ed Form

I jumped in and did it by exporting each diary seperately with absolutely no problems - I'd still like to know whether a dump and restore would have done the job, but that's only because exporting 30 diaries was a PITA.

Ed Form
Title: Re: Backup and restore of Horde across versions
Post by: cactus on December 17, 2008, 11:30:30 PM
Quote from: edform on December 17, 2008, 08:37:58 PM
I'd still like to know whether a dump and restore would have done the job, but that's only because exporting 30 diaries was a PITA.
You could install VMWare, install a clean SME Server on there and try the restore in there in another fashion.
Title: Re: Backup and restore of Horde across versions
Post by: mrjhb3 on December 18, 2008, 04:09:27 PM
Quote from: edform on December 17, 2008, 08:37:58 PM
I jumped in and did it by exporting each diary seperately with absolutely no problems - I'd still like to know whether a dump and restore would have done the job, but that's only because exporting 30 diaries was a PITA.

Ed Form

Yes a dump and restore would have worked.  All of that information is stored in the horde mysql database.  Manually exporting and importing will work as you found out, but any other preference settings a user had was lost as well.

John