5.5.2 Solaris Migration

I am currently testing the backing store conversion process and have a questions regarding approximate speed of the conversion. I am running Solaris and upgrading TS 5.0.1 (with all patches) to TS 5.5.2. I am noticing the speed of the migration seems to be slow... Running the iwconvert tool with the following parameters:
/usr/iw/iw-home/bin/iwconvert -m /dubsun61/iwmnt -n /dubsun61/iw-store/default -o /local/iw-store/default -b //DUBSUN61/default/main/GWS_US_Retail -d -f -s edition_0676 -e edition_0688
It looks to running at about 40 MB per hour from the logs (all drives of the source have been NFS mounted on the 5.5.2 server. I have attached a log excerpt. Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks in advance!

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

deepak

You are quite correct with your approximation. I experienced the same migration speed when I was upgrading my system to TS 5.5.2.

Migrateduser

Just Curious, is there some reason why you are running with the full clone option (-f)? This does NOT preserve the version history of the files in your branches and WILL result in a much larger backing store than you should need (and will probably take more time since it will have to transfer more data over the network).

bscott1

Hmm. for some reason I guess I thought I was doing something incorrectly as I have around 600 editions to convert... Which, at this rate, will take about a month. Anyway any other feedback from any other users and/or IW as far as conversion speed standards would be helpful. To answer the last question in the string I performed with the -f option as I am just testing the conversion process not actually doing the real thing yet and didn't need versions to be maintained. The real thing will be without the -f. Do you know of any performance difference between using -f or not?

Adam Stoller

If you're just testing - it would be great if you'd also test without the '-f' flag and see what results *you* get - i.e. you can provide real-life data.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

bscott1

I will. Thanks!