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

  • From: Duc M Do <duc@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:20:35 -0500

Tom,
Not having done this particular upgrade myself, but knowing how particular
the Symantec restore procedure is, I think you will have to go the Day 0
route. But I can also offer this:

1. You don't have to worry about System Monitor. All the pertinent info is
loaded when you commit the box after the Day 0 load. You will have to
migrate all the other databases in your list.

2. Don't forget your alarm configurations if you have configured
AApan/AAtab.

3. Also, don't forget any additional configuration for the new FBMs such as
FBM224. (There may be others that I don't know about.)

Maybe you ought to write down (check that, please summarize, really) what
you do so those of us who might have to do this in the future can learn from
it.

Duc


On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:57 AM, tjvandew@xxxxxxxxx <tjvandew@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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