jw0ollard
Sat 21st Jul '07, 11:50am
Hello,
I'm helping a friend do a major upgrade from vB 2.3.2 to vB 3.6.7.
I have plenty of experience with vB 3.x, and have also used ImpEx on a few occasions, but have no experience whatsoever with vB2.x. My question is: To use ImpEx or to not use ImpEx??
I'm aware I don't need to, but I have several reservations about using a direct upgrade method:
The 2.x forums have several problems. The search function just doesn't work, and there are all sorts of unknown (to me) database modifications from vB 2.x hacks.
Database size: 2.2GB
ImpEx vB2 documentation says "No importing of avatars", which we actually think is a good thing. +1 for ImpEx. :)
I'm under the impression that importing the data from the old DB will be MUCH cleaner and have less risk of something going wrong than doing a direct upgrade. Please correct me if I'm wrong!
Being able to import the tables IN STEPS would seem to prevent things from going terribly wrong.So, anyway. It seems like I have my mind made up, which I basically do.... But I want to know if there are any "negatives" or drawbacks to using ImpEx that I'm not aware of?
The one thing the documentation seemed to say could be a problem was PHP Memory Limits. I've had the PHP Memory increased to 128MB, at least until after the upgrade. It said that 64MB for 750,000+ posts should be OK, but the board I'm doing has 2.6M+ posts.
Should 128MB memory be enough?
Thanks in advance.
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EDIT: I'm very sorry... I didn't realize there was a forum for ImpEx. While this is also a general upgrade question, if you feel it belongs in the ImpEx forum please move it.
Sorry.
I'm helping a friend do a major upgrade from vB 2.3.2 to vB 3.6.7.
I have plenty of experience with vB 3.x, and have also used ImpEx on a few occasions, but have no experience whatsoever with vB2.x. My question is: To use ImpEx or to not use ImpEx??
I'm aware I don't need to, but I have several reservations about using a direct upgrade method:
The 2.x forums have several problems. The search function just doesn't work, and there are all sorts of unknown (to me) database modifications from vB 2.x hacks.
Database size: 2.2GB
ImpEx vB2 documentation says "No importing of avatars", which we actually think is a good thing. +1 for ImpEx. :)
I'm under the impression that importing the data from the old DB will be MUCH cleaner and have less risk of something going wrong than doing a direct upgrade. Please correct me if I'm wrong!
Being able to import the tables IN STEPS would seem to prevent things from going terribly wrong.So, anyway. It seems like I have my mind made up, which I basically do.... But I want to know if there are any "negatives" or drawbacks to using ImpEx that I'm not aware of?
The one thing the documentation seemed to say could be a problem was PHP Memory Limits. I've had the PHP Memory increased to 128MB, at least until after the upgrade. It said that 64MB for 750,000+ posts should be OK, but the board I'm doing has 2.6M+ posts.
Should 128MB memory be enough?
Thanks in advance.
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EDIT: I'm very sorry... I didn't realize there was a forum for ImpEx. While this is also a general upgrade question, if you feel it belongs in the ImpEx forum please move it.
Sorry.