On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:46:58AM -0400, Randy Doering wrote:
> Greetings, This weekend (thanks for it being the 5th weekend of the month 
> and no scheduled fulls) I'm going to upgrade our Alpha TruCluster Networker 
> from 7.1.1 to 7.2.1 and I have a couple of questions.
> 
> 1) Hopefully after the upgrade all of our clients 
> (Windows/Linux/Oracle/Exchange) will still be able to backup/restore 
> without having to also upgrade. I didn't see this expressly stated in the 
> documentation, but wanted to asked to be sure. Is this correct?

It's a general practice that the server can be newer than the clients,
but the clients shouldn't be newer than the server.  So, upgrade the
server first, and then the clients.  


> 3) Basically, I'm assuming that all of my current configuration (Indices, 
> Clients, Licensing, Scheduling, Groups, etc) will be preserved during the 
> installation/upgrade. I'm I correct in this assumption?
> 
> I've done this installation from scratch (the 7.1.1 install) but not an 
> upgrade.

At least in the linux and solaris server installs/upgrades I've done,
removing the server packages doesn't alter the /nsr directory, so all
of that information is preserved.  I usually try to copy all the /nsr
data over to a second test system and run the upgrade there first.  That
way you get a heads up for things like upgrade enablers, and can verify
restores/indexes still work on the new platform before you upgrade your
live server.

Dave

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