[horde] Migrating Database from horde3 to horde5

Vilius Sumskas/LNK vilius at lnk.lt
Fri Nov 20 14:25:43 UTC 2015


> >> So what i did now:
> >> 1. dump the original database and convert the encoding to utf8 with 
> > iconv
> >> 2. then dump the database back in a new database being already utf8
> >> 3. then do the text to bytea conversion
> >> 4. and finally run the horde-db-migrate script from command line 
three
> >> times.
> >>
> >> i just did the whole proces a second time and it went smoothly!
> > 
> > If you have converted your database from latin1 (or whatever) to 
UTF-8, 
> > you still need to find a way to convert serialized data in the 
database. 
> > At least some Horde preferences comes to my mind.
> > 
> 
> ...i was not expecting that i had to convert the serialized data
> myself... So thank you for reminding me...
> 
> but i do not know yet how i should do that, so may i come back to
> michaels offer to send me his scripts? That would be great and help a 
lot.
> Or is it better to post the one with the conversion of serialized data 
here?

If he agrees to share it, it would be best to do this on Horde wiki.

-- 
   Vilius


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