Migration, Upgrading and Moving House

Speaker(s): 
Will Hall

A look at the database structure, how we can think about ideas of upgrading/migrating and how best to achieve it in Drupal. (When I refer to the house it is a metaphorical house that actually represents that data held within databases).

  • The Drupal house
  • Why you want to move house
  • Planning to move house
  • Packing your boxes
  • Moving house
  • Unpacking your boxes

Hopefully it will not get too in depth, but should give people a good idea of options when it comes to migrating and upgrading either from old version of Drupal or from any other system. If anyone has anything specific that they want including then please let me know. Would like to think that it would be applicable for beginners to, however, I must state that it has a prerequisite of knowing what a database is and knowing that Drupal uses a database :)

I will probably give some demonstration of using the Migrate module (http://drupal.org/project/migrate) for Drupal 7.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
21 January 16:00 - 17:00
Room: 
Meeting Room 7