[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Upgrading across multiple versions

[Leilani Dawson]

Hi John,

The big stepping stone that comes to my mind--because I'm looking at doing
it next year as part of an upgrade from 2.5.1 to whatever's then
current--is 2.7, which introduced some major changes to how ASpace handles
languages in the collections.

Atlas Systems' Valerie Addonizio did a great presentation on how to prepare
for ASpace 2.7: https://training.atlas-sys.com/Course/Details/4336, which
I'm leaning on heavily as I'm starting in on things.

I'm currently planning on upgrading to 2.6, running the scripts to get
things prepared for 2.7, upgrading to 2.7 to make sure everything works as
intended, and then going the rest of the way.  I'd be glad to hear of any
other major stopping points as well.

Best,
-Leilani.
- -
Leilani Dawson, Manuscript Collections Archivist,
University Archives & Manuscripts Department
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library
2550 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822
808-956-3767

I do not presume that my working hours are the same as yours--and also
applaud people setting boundaries around their personal time--so please do
not respond if you are "off the clock."


On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 12:06 PM Dudeck, John <John.Dudeck at sim.org> wrote:

> Greetings.
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> I am an IT professional newly serving as pro-bono technical advisor to a
> non-profit’s small archives.
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> About 8 years ago a previous archivist started an Archives Space
> installation, but then left the organization, and knowledge of their
> Archives Space system disappeared. Recently by asking the right questions I
> found the Virtual Machine containing our instance, fully intact and
> operational. There are a couple thousand records in the database.
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> This instance of Archives Space is version 1.1.2. I tried doing an upgrade
> from 1.1.2 to a recent version (3.3.0 I think) a while back, which was not
> successful, as could be expected.
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> So assuming that I need to do the upgrade in several steps, I would like
> to know what intermediate versions would be the key steps to upgrade to in
> order to get all of the database migrations. Or alternatively, can somebody
> point me to information on how to migrate the database over that span of
> 1.1.2 to 3.4.1 ? I scoured the online information on upgrading A.S., and
> have not found anything sufficiently helpful.
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> Thanks.
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> John Dudeck              Tel: +1-704-588-9891  Cell: +1-803-504-8065
> john.dudeck at sim.org                        Charlotte, North Carolina
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