[horde] Migrating to a new Horde install

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de:

> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>>
>> Zitat von Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at dada.net>:
>>
>>> So, after some success at getting installed, I'm stuck with the  
>>> most obvious question.  No one else has asked it, so it's probably  
>>> stupid or lazy..
>>>
>>> When Horde4.0 is finally released, many people will be upgrading  
>>> from a legacy installation.  Which brings its own challenges, to  
>>> be sure.  However, I will be setting Horde4.0 on a completely new  
>>> box.  Given that there about 732 tabs worth of options to wade  
>>> through and configure, is there some way to get an easy synopsis  
>>> of all the old configuration parameters?
>>
>> Like the descriptions that come with each setting in the interface?
>>
>> You have two options: either you use Horde because of it's  
>> tremendous flexibility, one sign for that are "732" tabs of  
>> configuration. Or you hope the best that we picked sane defaults  
>> for each setting (we did). But please don't come back then to ask  
>> each time if this or that feature would possible, until you've  
>> really gone through all configuration options.
>>
>>> I'm dreading wading through this lot once - let alone setting it  
>>> up on stage and then doing it all again on prod (although at that  
>>> stage it may be easier to copy over the install/config files I've  
>>> built on stage, but I'm not sure about the soundness of that  
>>> approach.
>>
>> That's perfectly sane and best practice for *any* staging of  
>> services into production.
>
> While i agree that porting the settings is not necessary or easily  
> possible i like to know what migration path if any exists for the  
> following:
>
> - Turba contact data
> - Kronolith calendar
> - SyncML state and devices
> - Identity settings
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Andreas

docs/UPGRADING

Jan.

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