Posts tagged 'migration'

Migrating Plone 2.5 content straight onto Plone 4

It’s my very last Plone 2.5 site and I’m very happy to see the back of it.  Using the joy that is quintagroup.transmogrifier, I was able to, without much manual effort, migrate my content from a Plone 2.5 site (constructed with instancemanager, of all things!) straight into a shiny new Plone 4 site on Buildout.

My only key need was to port the content and structure, and I was happy to make big allowances for the sake of certain content and time.  So, my thoughts here mightn’t (probably won’t!) suit everyone.My requirements …

in Plone · Fri 14 January 2011

Migrating a Plone site off to another database (Zeo)

Another of the interesting things in my professional life has been migrating a Plone site from one database (where it lived as a dev site, along with many others) onto a nice, clean database of its own.  Now, yes, I’m aware that the export/import feature of Zope isn’t supposed to be used for migrating content or sites.  I am also aware, however, through personal experience, that things have always been fine because I’m using the same eggs and essentially the same installations everywhere, thanks to buildout.

So, the process goes as follows, with the above-mentioned points …

in Plone · Wed 30 September 2009

Migration complete (mostly)

Well, that’s always a good reason to let out a sigh of relief: I’ve managed to migrate most of the content from my previous blog over at Wikidot (which wasn’t really a blog so much as it was a hacked wiki). So, you’ll find a lot more content here than before, which is good, because it makes me look like I’m actually dedicated to creating content ;-)

I’ve also relaxed restrictions on comments (and added CAPTCHA security) so comment away people, if you’re reading this.  Just don’t expect much love if you spam …

in General · Thu 20 August 2009