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upgrade from 5 to 7.5 and from Windows to Linux

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:05 am
by PAPAIT
Hello,

I have to prepare some slides about an overview of DS upgrade methodology ?
Version is from 5 to 7.5 and OS can be from Windows to Linux ou Unix
does anyone have some "material" about this ?

Thanks

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:56 am
by chulett
Comes with the product... document is called something along the lines of the Installation and Upgrade Guide oddly enough. :wink:

Make sure you order the 7.5 media and read the one from that version. In a nutshell, the process should be as simple as:

1. Export all of your current jobs
2. Install 7.5 on the new server
3. Import all of your current jobs

Only other 'gotchas' might be anything O/S specific - pathnames, routines, etc that are Windows specific that will need to be changed to run on a UNIX server. That and a way to transfer hashed file contents to the new server, if there are one that you need to do that with.

Off the top of my head...