[foxboro] Upgrading Foxboro AW from P91, (Dell 2800), to P91, (Dell 2900), 2003 Server
- From: "Sieling, Marcel" <Marcel.Sieling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:53:00 -0500
Hi list,
Dave wrote:
>Have a look at a product Acronis True Image.
>[...]It has a universal restore feature which will help.
That's true and we have used it in several projects here in germany before the
Symantec based solution from Foxboro was released. Acronis True Image
Workstation 9.1 (echo) seems to work fine with I/A, we never had trouble with
I/A software side effects, however this is not an officially supported
solution.
But if you use an Acronis Boot CD the target system itself remains unchanged
and should not be disturbed. I'd say it's worth trying and if it does NOT work,
you have just lost the time to try it, if it DOES work you saved a week of
reinstallation and testing.
There are test versions available from www.acronis.com (registration required).
For server class operating systems you officially need the server versions of
the product, however I think I remember that this only applies to the online
part of the software, which is installed on the target machines and which
enables the online backup feature for a running system. I believe executing
backups and restores from Acronis boot CDs can be done using the simple home
version also on server class OS systems, but I'm not sure about that, try it
out.
Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Marcel Sieling
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Subject: Re: [foxboro] Upgrading Foxboro AW from P91, (Dell 2800), to P91,
(Dell 2900), 2003 Server
Have a look at a product Acronis True Image. I talked wit Invensys about
offering this as the supported tool instead of Symantec. It has a universal
restore feature which will help.
Regards
Dave Williams
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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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