Clean install vs Upgrade

mmb

Hi

We are planning to upgrade our current TeamSite installation from TS5.5.2 -> TS6.1. As part of this we are also going to migrate to a new hardware platform (staying on Solaris, just bigger & better).

Would you recommend doing a clean install of TS6.1 onto the new hardware and then importing all of our customisations;
or, installing TS5.5.2 onto the new hardware, importing our customisations and then upgrading to TS6.1?

I would prefer the clean install, but I am keen to gauge other opinions on this.

Thanks in advance

- mark

Adam Stoller

Figure you're going to have both servers up and running concurrently for a while - while you test and verify all your customizations and tweak things to make them work, or work better under 6.1.

With that in mind - I'd say start from scratch with a backup copy of your 552 backing store (so there's data there to play with) - and then once you have everything looking good:

1) Make a tar file of all files that live within TeamSite branches that needed to be tweaked (DCTs, PTs, etc.)
2) shut down your 552 server
3) get a good backup done
4) restore the backup to your 61 server
5) run iwfsck -d on the store
6) bring up the 61 server
7) Restore the files you tar'd up before-hand
8) run iwfsshrink (you can do this while the server is up and being used)


--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com