Migrating to new version as an additional store

smg

Hi,

Currently,

Business-1 is running TeamSite 6.7.2 on Solaris 10 in Server-1 (/local/iw-store/)
Business-2 is running TeamSite 6.7.0 on Solaris 10 in Server-2 (/local/iw-store/)

We are planning to move the Business-2 Content Store into Server-1 as an additional store. We have the license for multi store and have enough space & inodes.

After the migration we will retire the Server-2 and the end result would be:

Business-1, Business-2 is running TeamSite 6.7.2 on Solaris 10 in Server-1 (into two different stores).

My question is specifically around the Content-Store migration. There are two different tasks (a) converting Content Store from version 6.7.0 to 6.7.2 (b) moving to a different server as an additional store. (These two tasks may be combined.)

I will be adding the path for second store in my iw.cfg and restart the system.

Do I create the new store (call it as store2) as /local/store2 |or| /local/iw-store/store2 ?

While moving the business-2 (server-2) content store; do I copy all the contents under /local |or| /local/iw-store |or| /local/iw-store/default ?

Will I end up with one workflow folder or multiple workflow folders?

Will I be using iwuseradm to create a new store? |or| just create a solaris folder and activate it?

Anyone has similar experience? Or can share the steps to complete this task? Thanks.

Adam Stoller

My question is specifically around the Content-Store migration. There are two different tasks (a) converting Content Store from version 6.7.0 to 6.7.2 (b) moving to a different server as an additional store. (These two tasks may be combined.)

Check the docs or check with Support - I don't think you need to do iwmigrate - I believe you should be able to just copy the entire store from server2 to server1 - since they are probably both named "default" you need to rename the copied store to something else as you indicated below...

I will be adding the path for second store in my iw.cfg and restart the system.

Do I create the new store (call it as store2) as /local/store2 |or| /local/iw-store/store2 ?

You can do either - it depends on your disk partitioning and space whether you want them both to live within the same iw-store directory.

While moving the business-2 (server-2) content store; do I copy all the contents under /local |or| /local/iw-store |or| /local/iw-store/default ?

I believe you just want the directory and contents of /local/iw-store/default copied to /local/store2 (or /local/iw-store/store2) the other parts of /local/iw-store on the old serve are relevant to the general backing store and thus should not be copied over.

Will I end up with one workflow folder or multiple workflow folders?

You should only have one workflow folder - and it should be the one that already exists on server1.
This, of course, means that you will lose all active workflow information from server2 - so an attempt should be made to finish all active jobs, and make notes about ons that you cannot complete so that you can "recreate" them on server1.

Will I be using iwuseradm to create a new store? |or| just create a solaris folder and activate it?

Interesting question - if you have different users on server2 than on server1 you will probably have to use iwuseradm and/or iwusermigrate (or carefully edit the tsusers.xml file to merge the contents from both servers) - since 6.7.0 does not have flex roles and 6.7.2 does - you'll have to go through the whole process of re-associating all the users with roles on the branches in the new (copied) store.

Anyone has similar experience? Or can share the steps to complete this task? Thanks.

You will probably need to merge contents of files like:

you do...