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

  • From: <Jack.Easley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:45:35 -0600

It's good to know the total restore of the D: (Foxboro) drive seemed to
work for you. Advise us if you run into any glitches with this in the
future.

Thanks,

Jack Easley
Sr. I&C Technician
Luminant Power, Martin Lake Plant
Phone 903.836.6241
jack.easley@xxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Ron Schafer
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:23 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Upgrading Foxboro AW from P91, (Dell 2800), to
P91,(Dell 2900), 2003 Server

Well it seems that while I have been gone to tend to the ferrets and
chickens a topic of great pain for myself has been hashed around. I can
verify to all as first hand information that a P91-2800 to p91-2900 will
restore just fine. The problem will surface when you reboot and all you
get is the familiar "BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH". We just shipped back a 2800
after spending many weeks getting the 2900 up to speed. (sorry Fox for
not returning it sooner...) Yes the pain was felt with the Day 0 and
many installs and reboots as it too was the boot host and RDP server and
backup OPC server and Foxray server and and and and the list goes
on....and on...and on.
So for those about to try it, I did a ghost backup(of each partition to
keep the filesize smaller) to a extra HD on the 2800, rebooted into
windows, and copied them off to an extra harddrive on the 2900. This
allowed for a image that we can pull files from in the future if we need
to and its on a local drive to the 2900. Yes we had to Day 0 the
machine, however doing a Restore of the D partition did work. However, I
was very carefull to make sure no ICC changes were made between the
removal of the 2800 and installation of the 2900 as that would lead to
corrupt workfiles, or so I am told. Also, we did swap ethernet cards
just for the sake of the mac address issue. We have recently upgraded to
8.4.2 and continue to run without issues of major concern. This was a
fairly painless procedure once we gave up on the total ghost restore
idea and followed some basic rules. 
 
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