Hi Marcin - Migration from 7.3 to 7.5 or 7.6 will only work if you prepare your source database with the migrate statement in database state admin. And yes "migrate" leads to changes in the data area, but this will not influence the consistency or usability of your source system. After executing the "migrate" statement you should run a full database backup (save data). Do not start the database between migrate and save data, because the migrate flag in the restart record will be lost. You could use this backup file for recovery purpose in 7.3 as well as in 7.4/7.5 and 7.6.
Note that neither incremental data backups nor log backups made in 7.3 are usable in releases greater than 7.3 Note that the inplace migration from 7.3 to 7.6 is not available at this time. If you want to change to 7.6 you have to go via save/restore. Regards, Torsten SAP Labs Berlin -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcin P Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Copying data 7.3 -> 7.5/7.6 Hi, As I wanted to check the newest versions of MaxDB, I would like to copy my data from our server running SAP DB 7.3.040 to my new installation (it will be 7.5 or 7.6 - I haven't yet decided). I know about executing util_execute migrate just before the backup, however I don't want any changes to take place on my server (production) machine. Does "migrate" leads to any changes in data volumes? Or is only the next backup influenced? Any hint would be very valuable, Thanks in advance, Marcin Pytel -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
