Restore openHAB 2.5 backup to a new openHAB 3.2 installation, possible?

[Wolfgang_S]

It is better either to upgrade 2.5 to 3.2 or do a fresh installation of 3.2 together with it’s configuration.
The backup contains several references to 2.5 which would fail to be resolved with 3.2.

Two examples:

Upgrade from 2.5.12 to 3.1

Hello everybody! Ive been running an OpenHAB 2.5.12 for a long basically because im scared of breaking everything. Now that im on holidays and have some time i would like to upgrade to 3.* im not really sure if thats an easy process so I prefer to ask. My openHAB system is on a virtual machine (ESXi server) so i was thinking to create a new virtual machine and installing openHAB 3.1 and from there restore my backup file from the 2.5.1. Will this work? i know there have been some major chan…

Migration from OH2.5.11 to OH3

Merry Christmas everyone I tried to upgrade my OH 2.5.11 to OH3 (Openhabian on RPI4) a few times, but always messed up. What I’ve done so far: Upgrade directly from 2.5.11 to OH3 with openhabian-config → failed due to a lot of errors and issues Clean OH 3 Installation and restore of OH2.5.11 backup → failed due to a lot of errors and issues (e.g. all Things/Channels/Items created by PAperUI are missing) What I now want to do: Clean Installation OH3. Installation of all necessary ad…