Doug Morse, on 2007-08-09:
Hello Fellow Zopers,
I'm trying to migrate an older Zope installation (2.5.x) to Zope 2.9 and I'm having some trouble. I can mount the old ZODB in the new installation -- it shows up under the database control panel with the correct size (4.4M) -- but it appears to be empty. By "empty", I mean there are no folders or objects present when I view the mount point using the ZMI, and I get "Resource Not Found" errors when trying to view object I know to be there. I'm not getting any error messages within the ZMI or in the events.log file regarding problems with the older Data.fs file or mounting it.
A 4.4 MB Data.fs *is* rather empty. That is only marginally bigger than the size you get when you start with a fresh zope instance. Are you sure the objects you expect are actually there when you start a 2.5 Zope with this database?
I'm wondering if there's some sort of "upgrading" of the ZODB file I need to perform? Any help with this would be MOST appreciated, as I'm not turning up anything in the docs, with google, or any other means I can think of, and I need to get this site migrated.
Not sure, but you might need to first upgrade to 2.6, then 2.7, then 2.8, then 2.9. At least I would not be surprised if that is the case.
Just for completeness: The only thing different about the new Zope installation is that the old Data.fs file is being mounted within Zope under a subdirectory (e.g., "/sitename") instead of the root directory (i.e., "/"). There's a new ZODB mounted at the root directory, and several other new ZODBs mounted in other subdirectories for new sites -- they all work fine but also were created using Zope 2.9, not Zope 2.5.
I would first migrate the 2.5 database to 2.9 in a separate zope instance with only this database, not any others. After that you can try mounting that migrated database together with the others. This is just a guess though: I have never tried anything like this. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ "Do not worry about your difficulties in computers, I can assure you mine are still greater."