Re: [foxboro] Upgrading Foxboro AW from P91, (Dell 2800), to P91, (Dell 2900), 2003 Server

  • From: <Jack.Easley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:48:40 -0600

No guru at this, but to my knowledge you are correct in that a Day 0 is
required on the new P91 (different hardware). The restoration of the D:
drive (Foxboro Drive) only will not work. The Symantec backup will be
useful in that you can attach it to your new P91 and easily restore any
custom files, such as AIM configuration, environments, etc. etc.
Needless to say, update any configuration files such as save-alls,
Historian configuration, etc to the hard-drive and make a backup before
shutting it down. 

The only thing I will add is that even to restore to an identical
hardware box using Symantec restore, you must first swap the old Foxboro
NIC cards to the new machine. If this is not possible, you can restore
to identical hardware with new Foxboro NICs and perform a committal on
first boot to enable use of the new Foxboro NICs (or so I've been told).

Jack Easley
Sr. I&C Technician
Luminant Power, Martin Lake Plant
Phone 903.836.6241
jack.easley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [foxboro] Upgrading Foxboro AW from P91, (Dell 2800), to P91,
(Dell 2900), 2003 Server

All wise and knowing list,
    Tomorrow morning, Monday Feb 9th, we are going to attempt an upgrade

from an old P91, (Dell 2800), to P91, (Dell 2900), 2003 Server.  We have

a lot of applications running on this box and I would like to minimize 
the effort and retain all of the data for:

CSA - Compound Summary Access for the Site
AIM * Historian for the Site
IACC Server hosting 6 databases for the Site
Boot Host for Training CP's
System Monitor

    Although you might think that the Symantec Back-up and Restore 
Utility that Foxboro endorses and re-sells would make this an easy task,

that is not the case.  In fact, it looks like Symantec is pretty useless

in this task because the new box has a different BIOS and Symantec will 
only restore a backup to an identical machine.  If I am wrong about this

and someone knows a secret that I don't, please speak up.  There is a 
lot I don't know about this.

    Is there any Foxboro document that describes the best way to upgrade

a box like this? 

I think the "pat" answer is to do a Day 0 on the new box, load all of 
the individual apps, back up all of the different individual databases 
for each app from the old box, and then copy or restore them to the 
appropriate directory on the new box.  This is a very painstaking and 
time consuming process but I think it is what we have to do unless 
someone knows of a better method.

If we did a Day 0 and reloaded the apps and then backed up the entire D:

drive partition from the old box and restored it all to the new D: 
partition would we catch all of the Foxboro specific applications and 
databases?

I would like to hear from anyone who has gone through this exercise.

Mahalo, (Thanks), for any helpful hints that you may have.

Cheers,
Tom VandeWater
Control Conversions, Inc.
Kapolei, HI

 
 
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