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 AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Huebner, Andy
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:41 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT 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 AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Lee, Gary
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:20 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT 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