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- From: msjle@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Joi L. Ellis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Getting ready to upgrade to 3.11
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 19:47:20 -0600
- Organization: Educational Computing Network
- Lines: 61
- Message-ID: <1ivsb8INNmb1@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
- References: <Jan12.230642.58633@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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- Keywords: advice
-
- pruett@CS.ColoState.EDU (J. L. Pruett) writes:
-
- >I'm getting ready to upgrade our Novell network 2.2 to the
- >3.11. Does anyone have any advice or warnings to give me?
-
- >Thanks
- >Jenny
-
- I just did this last week. I downloaded MIGRATE.ZIP (I think that was
- the name) from novell's ftp server. It's a beta version. It worked
- great, except:
-
- 1) my backup device wouldn't function under the 3.11 NLMS so I had to
- fall back on a borrowed backup unit. Make sure whatever backup method
- you use during your rebuild will function correctly when the server
- becomes a real 3.11 puppy.
-
- 2) I used Migrate to create a twin of my 2.2 original server onto a
- borrowed 3.11 spare server. I carefully compared number of files &
- bytes on both the old and borrowed servers until I was sure everything
- had migrated ok. Then I nuked my old server and rebuilt it from scratch
- under 3.11. After that worked ok, I tried restoring from backup tape.
- No go. Then I used NCOPY to get stuff from the borrowed server to the
- new one. That all worked ok. Then I used Cheyenne Utilities to
- transfer the bindery of the borrowed server to the new server. That
- worked ok, too. I thought I was all set.
-
- 3) The next day, my bosses secretaries complained that their files were
- missing! I eventually discovered that MIGRATE had placed some 50 users'
- files as subdirectories under another regular user. The 50 had home
- directories of their own, and their bindery info was ok, except that all
- their files existed elsewhere. IE User BETH's directory SYS:USERS\BETH
- became SYS:USERS\GREGM\BETH. I haven't a *clue* why this occurred. I
- failed to catch this before I nuked my original server because I was
- only counting files and bytes total under the root of each volume, not
- within each subdirectory under the volume.
-
- I went back and studied the migration report MIGRATE created, and sure
- enough, it reported moving all those users' files under GREGM instead of
- where they really belonged. The report didn't give any reason why it
- did this, though.
-
- Upshot, I temporarily lost some files for a lot of users but once I
- found out where they really were, putting them back where they belonged
- was a simple matter. The only gotcha: any special trustee rights those
- users may have granted to other users are lost, becuase those
- directories didn't already exist when I restored the bindary.
-
- Other than this, Migrate worked GREAT.
-
- (Yes, I know, I could have done an inplace migration or used 2xto3x
- instead, but I needed to do a major reorganization of my volumes at the
- same time, and I did *not* trust my backup unit, critical in an inplace
- migration.)
-
-
-
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- Joi Ellis msjle@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
- Student Residential Programs Western Illinois University
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