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

  • From: <dave.g.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:35:54 +0100

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
Senior Process Control Consultant
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Sent: 09 February 2009 06:57
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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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