Re: [Evolution] migration strategies - Help!

["Art Alexion" <art RHD ORG>]

Lastly, when you say "upgrade", are you seriously considering trying to install a relatively new Debian based 
distro on top of a very old rpm based distro?

If so, I predict nightmares, an unbootable system and data loss.

If you just mean that you are going to replace the system and are planning routes for data migration, then I 
would not seriously expect a smooth path.

If you can, upload important mail to an imap server and retrieve it from there on your installation.  I'd go 
the csv route for contacts.


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Art Alexion
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----- Original Message -----
From: evolution-list-bounces gnome org <evolution-list-bounces gnome org>
To: evolution-list gnome org <evolution-list gnome org>
Sent: Thu Apr 30 05:24:19 2009
Subject: Re: [Evolution] migration strategies - Help!

>  In playing with the trial installation
> on another box, I've verified that Evo doesn't recognize
> importing of those elements from previous Evo versions.

Not exactly true.  When upgrading, Evo will upgrade data from previous
versions if necessary.  However I fear that what you are trying to do
(upgrade 1.x to 2.24) is just too disparate.  There was a big change in
the data structures from 1.x to 2.x and early versions of 2.x managed
the upgrade without any problems - and subsequent upgrades of 2.x to 2.y
also worked.  They worked seamlessly, that's probably why you haven't
found anything about it on the net.

BTW, I know this to be true because I've been upgrading Evo since before
1.4 and am now on 2.26.

I would have thought as well that you are going to have problems with
other things trying to upgrade from FC2 to Ubuntu 8.10 - not only is it
a big upgrade in terms of time difference, but it's also a difficult
upgrade in going across distros.

A few other comments - why are you going to Ubuntu 8.10, why not the
most recent version?  Also, and probably more importantly, if you are in
the habit of keeping an installation for a long time, why use a distro
that has a short lifetime (like Fedora or Ubuntu8.10), you would be
better off using a long term distro like CentOS or which ever Ubuntu it
was that had long support - at least then you will keep up to date with
security updates and have a reasonable chance of having versions that
aren't woefully out of date!

P.


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