Strategy for Custom Fields

Hi Everyone,
I've a question related to handling of custom fields during upgrade.
Scenario:
9.0 delivered record has a custom field added to it.
After initial pass, following happened.
1. 9.0 delivered record was replaced by 9.2 delivered record structure
2. Custom Field was deleted
3. Data for the custom field was dropped too..
Q1 What should be the best strategy to get the data and field back... Here is what I understand.
Keep 9.2 record
Add custom field to it.
Import data for custom field from another 9.0 environment.
Suggestions welcome.

during initial move don't drop the custom added fields which are needed.
This way you will not lose the data

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