[turba] migrating some addressbooks forward to a newer turba release?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Michael J. Rubinsky wrote:

> If none of those addressbooks were using shares, which if it was a
> *much* older version of Turba, they probably didn't, you really
> don't need to do much at all. If you are OK with keeping the same
> schema, and the same fields available, you *should* be able to just
> copy over the relevant portions of config/sources.php into the new
> config/sources.php (and, of course, migrate the tables to the new DB
> server, if you are using one).  If you want to update the schemas to
> be more in line with the newer, more groupware like schema that's
> available in the newer Turbas, then you will have to tweak your DB
> schemas to match what you want.

  so it sounds like i can install a fresh, current version of turba,
then just copy the relevant parts of the old sources.php file and
perhaps tweak them slightly if i want.  the addressbooks are already
in mysql on the server so all i need to do is point at them, yes?
i'll give that a shot.

rday
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