Peter Grace wrote:
> Hello again list,
>
> I decided I should tackle the 7.2 -> 7.4.1SP1 upgrade "by the book",
> since my last attempt to do this on another server resulted in me losing
> my indexes!
>
> I'm a bit perplexed about instruction one from the installation guide:
>
> 1. Determine whether all criteria to complete the index conversion is met.
>
> Where are these criteria enumerated? I checked the intro to the upgrade
> section but it makes no mention of criteria, in fact it says that you
> cannot directly upgrade, so that is kind-of confusing.
>
> The directions do say to save the bootstraps with savegrp -O <group>, is
> this all I need to do to ensure that the indexes are also saved, or do I
> have to make sure I have full backups of every group before I upgrade?
> The directions are a little ambiguous on that.
I don't know what they are referring to here, but if you take proper
steps to ensure that your bootstrap and index backups are up to date
then losing them as a result of an upgrade going wrong should only be a
minor inconvenience, not a disaster.
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