We have an Umbraco 7.3.5 instance that we want to migrate to the latest 8.x version. It's running on a Windows server with IIS, with MS SQL Server backing it.
Is there an easy way to migrate the content up to 8.x? Can this be done by, for example, getting an 8.x instance running on a new server, with a new fresh 8.x database, and migrating data from the 7.x database to the 8.x one?
We're actually in a position to do this, because the server's OS is over-due to be upgraded as well...and if a parallel approach is possible, that would be wonderful.
Has anybody defined a clear path to effectively jump from 7.3.5 level to 8.[anything]?
Go through the doctypes and update any "obsolete" properties in your Data Types and change them to their updated counterparts. Take backups of the DB so you can roll back at this stage
Migration from 7.x to 8.x
We have an Umbraco 7.3.5 instance that we want to migrate to the latest 8.x version. It's running on a Windows server with IIS, with MS SQL Server backing it.
Is there an easy way to migrate the content up to 8.x? Can this be done by, for example, getting an 8.x instance running on a new server, with a new fresh 8.x database, and migrating data from the 7.x database to the 8.x one? We're actually in a position to do this, because the server's OS is over-due to be upgraded as well...and if a parallel approach is possible, that would be wonderful.
Has anybody defined a clear path to effectively jump from 7.3.5 level to 8.[anything]?
Hi grep
Have you had a read through this page?
https://our.umbraco.com/Documentation/Getting-Started/Setup/Upgrading/migrating-to-v8
There are a couple of packages mentioned here that make tje process smoother...
Regards
Marc
I've just ran through a v7 to v8 upgrade, Marc's bang on with the official documentation, here's the steps I took:
It took me a few goes to get it right and there was a bit of backwarding and forwarding but the process works.
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