Zoltan,

That's exactly what we did - test on a restored copy of a v5 database.  We used 
restore db, but a snapshot should also work.  If you have the resources, I 
suggest doing this testing as it should give you a better idea of what problems 
you might run into and how long it will take.  Doing these test runs allowed 
our upgrades to go very smoothly.

..Paul

At 09:55 AM 1/12/2012, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote:
>I am going through the docs preparing to do my first test of converting a
>V5 server to V6.3 on a test server/machine.
>
>I am looking for details on EXACTLY what the DSMUPGRD PREPAREDB does.
>
>Since this is a test/dry run, I don't want to do this against a live
>server,  just a copy of it's databases.
>
>Can I just restore the V5 DB to the test machine, install the DSMUPGRD
>utility and run it against the restored DB?
>
>How about from a DBSNAPSHOT of this database we do to an offsite TSM
>server?
>
>
>Zoltan Forray
>TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
>Virginia Commonwealth University
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