what is the best way to Import content from Tridion 5.2 to Tridion 2011 SP1

Question

what is the best way to Import content from Tridion 5.2 to Tridion 2011 SP1, content porter? or Kapow

Answer 1

To upgrade the DB you would have to follow this path: 5.2 => 5.2 SP1 => 5.3 SP1 => 2011 SP1. This information can be found in the documentation available on www.sdltridionworld.com

Additionally you would need to:

1.- Rebuild store procedures.

2.- Rebuild search index.

3.- Optimize stats.

In case you want to migrate only bits and pieces you are looking into extract content from 5.2 using business connector and then importing this into 2011 using CoreService.

Answer 2

What about upgrading the database? Or are you going to sanitize content?

I would probably try Content Porter (due to cost) but take into attention all dependencies that might come with it.

Answer 3

Do you have two different Tridion environments set-up already? Is the content in your 5.2 environment old? Has it seen a lot of updates already? Does the code remain exactly the same (vbscript?) Does your client really want all the content, or just parts of it?

If it really is just a case of an upgrade without anything changes in code, design or implementation you should use Asier Fernandez's solution with the database upgrade.

Anything else that is going to be an upgrade of Tridion systems, but with many other site changes you should considers a more manual approach (cheaper in the end) Bart Koopman once wrote a ncie blog about it: http://www.tridiondeveloper.com/how-to-say-goodbye-to-your-migration-tool