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[Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

In GENERAL you can import data exported from 2.24 into 2.26 - BUT there
seems to be unresolved compatibility issues with the export files of SOME
objects. You might be able to identify them by scrutinizing the relevant
documentation (which, regrettably, isn't always 100% up-to-date), but I
would rather opt for a segmented export import process (assuming you are
importing into an empty database):
- start with the known "primary" building blocks (those not dependent on
anything else), like option sets, attributes, users
- continue with the section related to orgunits, ougroups, group sets, etc
- then data element section, then indicators
- then tracker & events
- last you export/import everything to related to analysis, reports,
charts, maps, dashboards etc.
Do a quick pg_dump after each section. In case of a problem, you can then
roll back and try again with a different segment configuration.

Most important of all: document whatever issues you find with incompatible
export/import formats, and write a JIRA bug report (as should be obvious,
at least upward imports from previous versions must be made to work).

Alternatively, try to import the data into 2.24 using the api/24/metadata
as Morten suggests - then upgrade to 2.25 and then 2.26.

My 2c worth

Regards
Calle

On 13 February 2017 at 15:08, Karrtik Iyer <karrtik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Calle, thanks, one quick question, can we import files (meta data)
> exported from 2.24 version into 2.26? Because when we tried that last the
> import just kept running without showing any progress. Only then we
> downgraded our version to 2.24.
> Thanks,
> Karrtik
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017, 5:21 PM Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Importing a 165mb meta-data export file into 2.24 would be awfully slow,
>> in particular if you have a lot of orgunits. I've regularly been
>> exporting/importing ~10,000 OU records - even if I actually only wanted to
>> update a few of them, but DHIS2 do not have any export filters for e.g.
>> lastupdated - and it would typically take several hours. The main culprit
>> is that these OrgUnits are being imported one by one (with a catalina entry
>> for each of them), and I think it is the same for many other objects.
>>
>> The new export/import functionality is 2.25 and 2.26 is immensely much
>> faster, though - presumably because they are using more efficient sql code
>> (table comparisons instead of one by one). What took 3 hours in 2.24 takes
>> 30 seconds or something in 2.25 and 2.26.
>>
>> Bottom line: consider moving at least to 2.25, and import there.
>> Otherwise you just have to wait for it to finish....
>>
>> Regards
>> Calle
>>
>> On 13 February 2017 at 13:10, Anilkumar Kodi <anilkumk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, we could see that process was still running,  in logs we could see
>> that there are no errors and it is creating, updating dataSets, orgUnits
>> and orgGroups,.. etc.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anil Kumar K
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Are you sure the process was actually running? No errors in the Tomcat
>> log?
>>
>> On Feb 13, 2017 10:43 AM, "Nalinikanth Meesala" <nalinim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are trying to import Meta data of dhis2 exported from (2.23) to our
>> local instance DHIS 2(2.24) [as import of the exported metadata is not
>> working in DHIS 2.23 ].
>>
>> The size of meta data is 164 mb can you please help in providing inputs
>> to make the import faster. previously when we tried it took more than 2
>> days and it was still running.
>>
>> Ca you please let us know any work around so that we can make it faster.
>>
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