Hello,
First of all, I am quite a networker newbie, so please excuse me if my answers
are not clear or not 100% correct.
But as we performed a similar upgrade a couple months ago (7.2 to 7.5.1 on
Solaris as well), some of these information might be of some use.
Our upgrade was done with the help of a support consultant, and we have kept a
trace of commands and operations issued. He didn't run any "nsrck" command,
but first time we started the Networker server, some maintenance operations
occurred, and I assume these are the index conversion you are talking about.
We received several messages of this kind during these operations:
... Upgrading NSRLA configuration database ...
... WARNING: NSR configuration database detected invalid resource...
... Invalid resource saved at...
... NSRLA configuration database upgrade succeeded ...
While I cannot give precise figures, this step lasted less than 2 hours. We
have about 80G of indexes.
Regards,
Johan
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Objet : [Networker] 7.2 -> 7.5.1 upgrade index conversion time?
Tomorrow, we are hopefully upgrading our old (Solaris) 7.2 server to
7.5.1. The last upgrade on this system was from 6.1 to 7.2 (6 or 7 years
ago) and after scanning the installation guide One More Time, I now have a
couple of questions, naturally... :-\
*** Does anyone have any kind of ballpark figure on how long the index
conversion takes? ***
We have roughly 32 GB of indexes. Are we talking minutes, hours, etc.? I
assume the nsrck -L2 step at the end of the installation sequence is what
does this. We'll be at this step hopefully no later than noon and we have
backups starting almost every hour between 6 pm and 1 am. Is that
sufficient time, or am I grossly overestimating how long it will take?
This is not a new server, but is no slouch either (a 4 CPU, 8 GB RAM Sun
V880 with fibre channel drives).
Also, the install doc has the (IMO) rather vague statement :
"To prepare to update the Sun StorageTek EBS software:
1. Determine whether all criteria to complete the index conversion is
met."
(on page 35 of the Sun version of the install guide)
Yet there's no link (in the PDF) to any specific requirements, nor did I
find anything appropriate unless I just overlooked it. Last time the
indexes were converted (6.1 to 7.2), there was nothing specific to do,
IIRC.
*** Any clarification on this would be appreciated. ***
Thanks!
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