[Zope] Old zope instance migration to Ubuntu 8.04?

[Mike Elliott]

Hi -

I have an old instance of Zope - I'm not sure just how old but at
least four years (maybe six or seven, I don't know) - which has been
running on a server which is now no longer functional.  I'd like to
migrate to a new server running Ubuntu 8.04.1 but the old code doesn't
run anymore.

I have a full backup of the system and would be quite content to get
it running under the current Ubuntu zope distribution on the new
server but would like some advice as to how best to proceed.   Simply
putting the existing zope directory structure on the new machine and
trying to start it up no longer works - presumably due to differences
in Python versions - but I don't actually know that.

 I have a high school field hockey team, an Indian Princess group and
a couple of other groups with Plone sites on the old server and they'd
like to see their stuff again.

Any suggestions as to the best way to handle this?

Cheers --