Re: [Networker] Savesets Missing in Index After Upgrade

Hi Brent,

Yes I've seen exactly the problem you describe. I've seen it to an even
worse extent where a client index doesn't convert *at all* with no error
messages given. As far as I could make out (with extensive help from Legato
support) was that there was some form of corruption in the NetWorker 5.x
indexes which wasn't causing a problem to NetWorker 5.x but caused a problem
with the conversion to NetWorker 6.x. I was upgrading from NetWorker 5.5.3
to 6.1.1 directly on Solaris and Windows NT and saw the problem occasionally
on both platforms!

I'm struggling to remember the exact steps to fix this, I'm afraid, but I
think it was along the lines of:

Pre-upgrade:
    - run nsrck -F
    - run nsrck -m
    - run nsrck -c
    - run nsrim -X 3 times

Perform upgrade

Post-upgrade:
    - run nsrck -m
    - run nsrck -c
    - run nsrim -X 3 times
    - run nsrck -L7 on the affected client to recover and reconvert the
index.

I think it was the post-upgrade nsrck -c that was crucial in our case.
All should now be well with the problem clients.

Hope this helps!

Mark

> Hi Davina,
>
> I contacted Legato support when looking to do our upgrade and they explicitly
> said that the conversion programs were not part of releases in 6.1.X and to
> perform the upgrade to the latest 6.0.X version.
>
> If this is not the case, I wouldn't be surprised.  Legato support has already
> suggested trying the upgrade with 6.0.2 to see if there is a difference.
>
> Have you performed an upgrade straight from 5.5.X to 6.1.X?
>
> Thanks,
> Brent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davina Treiber [mailto:treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM]
> Sent: February 24, 2003 5:05 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Savesets Missing in Index After Upgrade - Help!
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:31:05 -0500, Brent Simon <brent.simon AT GOV.AB DOT 
> CA> wrote:
>
>> We performed an upgrade from Networker 5.5.3 to 6.0.3 on our way to version
>> 6.1.2.
>
> This doesn't answer your question or solve your problem, but I was curious
> as to why you are going to an intermediate version? Why not go straight to
> 6.1.2, or 6.1.3? Looks to me like you are doubling the effort and increasing
> the risk of failure. 6.1.x still has the necessary conversion programs for
> your media DB and client files indices so it should work the same. There are
> no extra update enablers required, and you even get the odd licencing bonus
> such as shared autochangers included.
>
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