Cross Drupal Migration for Large Sites

Track: 
Coder
Experience: 
Intermediate

Are you....
Migrating from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6?
Getting ready to migrate from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7?
Need to migrate from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 and want some content in Drupal 7?
Can't afford to migrate all at once?

... Then this session is for you!!

For example, you work for a major media site and need to migrate your music section to the latest version of Drupal; but you can only do it one artist at a time.

Does your plan look like this?
http://www.somesite.com/music/artist1 ====> Drupal 6
http://www.somesite.com/music/artist2 ====> Drupal 6
http://www.somesite.com/music/artist3 ====> Drupal 5

Learn about how we did it!

You will learn:
1. How to manage multiple versions of Drupal
2. How to transition one section (or parts of a section) at a time
3. How to do all this without getting your Linux Admin involved (more than once)

Any time remaining will be spent on Q&A.

Intended audience: 

Drupal developers with intermediate and advanced experience.

Drupal developers, or sys-admins, who work on large websites, and are transitioning (or planning) to the next version of Drupal.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
How to manage multiple versions of Drupal
Question 2: 
Benefits of doing partial-migrations in Drupal
Question 3: 
How to create a "Drupal Router"
Question 4: 
How to use APC (Alternative PHP Cache) to minimize the load impact of the "Drupal Router"
Question 5: 
How to leave your Linux Admin alone (after the initial setup)
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Comments

Track?

Is this really a coder session? This sounds targeted more at site builders. Although I can see it appropriate for sysadmins as well.

This session is for both

This session is for both coders and sysadmins.
Minimal sys-admin support is needed for this project, this involves a simple Apache config; which I will demonstrate.

This session will benefit anyone involved in site migrations.

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