So far, sounds good. This is my plan. 1. run prepared on 5.5.4 server.
Two create a file devclass on 5.5.4 server pointing to /upgrade. 3. mount a file system from the new tsm server onto /upgrade. 4. extract the db to /upgrade. 5. restart the 5.5.4 server for production work. 6. do the insert on the 6.2.4 server. Does this look reasonable? I have so far not found an explanation of what the dsmupgrd prepared does. Any ideas? Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Huebner, Andy Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] upgrae from 5.5.4 to 6.2.4 We did an upgrade from 5.4 to 6.2. I used a copy (SAN trick) for the source of the upgrade. I do not think the 5.5 to 6.2 upgrade changed the copy, I did not check, but I did not see any writes to the disks. The extract was written to a new disk. We created a new devclass (file) to write the data to. Our about 200GB DB took about 3 hours to extract, the insert to 6.2 took 10+hours. This was done on a P6. We did 3 practice upgrades for each server. Only 1 upgrade test failed because we did not get a clean copy. You might consider 6.2.5 as your target. Good Luck. Andy Huebner -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:20 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] upgrae from 5.5.4 to 6.2.4 I want to do a couple of practice upgrades of our tsm server v5.5.4 to a different box running v6.2.4. Reading the upgrade guide, I have to do the Dsmupgr prepared Then a Dsmupgrd extractdb I have not yet determined whether these will render the 5.5.4 server unusable? Has anyone out there done this and if so, what should I expect? Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310
