Posted by thermalmusic on May 4, 2012 at 5:33pm
Hi all,
I am in the process of developing a site in Drupal 7 to replace a site in Drupal 6 on the same server. We decided to create the new site instead of upgrading the old one for various reasons. I realize there are pitfalls migrating users, nodes, and other data from D6 to D7.
My questions are: has anyone had experience doing this, and what kinds of snags have you encountered? Did you use the migrate V2 module, SQL scripts, drush, or combination of the three?
Any comments, suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Steven
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I just upgraded my own site
I just upgraded my own site from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. The upgrade went fairly cleanly. I created two new instances. On my local dev I had strykerenterprise.mydev. Below are the steps I can recall.
from field_convert project "Currently, Image and User terms are using this framework to migrate their data to fields on Drupal 7."
If you still want to go the non-upgrading route. I would still recommend you upgrade your site, then use built-in views export, node export module, user export module, etc. to migrate your content over. This way the content is going from D7 site to D7 site.
Other things I could think of:
upgrade vs migrate
Thanks for the info and describing your steps.
If I understand correctly you started by creating two instances of Drupal: 6 and 7. Then you copied modules from your original site to se6.mydev, then migrated the original database to se6.mydev thus creating a working copy of your original site. Then you upgraded se6.mydev to 7, etc.
I would prefer to create a new 7 site from scratch and migrate users and content from the D6 site because there are too many modules in D6, a lot of contributed modules are in the main module folder, and image files are all over the place. Basically its a mess, though it still works.
I'm curious if anybody has migrated from D6 to D7 without upgrading D6 to D7 first and what kind of problems they ran into.
Steven
Code Migrate Module
I wrote the Code Migrate Module for planning and managing a D6 to D7 migration.
https://drupal.org/project/1635422