If the conversion/migration goes as planned, this will be the first entry posted into a MySQL database, moving from a Berkeley DB file structure that I suspect has been stretched beyond my expectations.
Some things I have been thinking about in the process:
- Safari doesn’t cope well with lengthy CGI processes: it gives up on them after 60 seconds and that’s not nearly enough time to extract, parse, and munge about 2000 artifacts from the Berkeley DB and insert them in MySQL. Accordingly, I had to use Mozilla FireBird to drive this.
- It does take a long time: and the results are hard to follow, since the artifacts are exported in a non-numerically sorted order:
MT::Category
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9Hard to know when you’re going to be done . . .
- And of course, most important, it would nice to know how to back out of this. I guess I would end up exporting records from MovableType (easily done) and them import them as a new empty weblog (again, easy enough).
Done copying data from Berkeley DB to your SQL database! All went well.
Well, here goes nothing . . .