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November 18, 2008 at 4:34 pm #56177

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we are moving from 5.2 to 5.5 on different boxes, 5.2 was in aix and we are moving to 5.5 on a Redhat linux 4.0. (vmware). How do I use hcirootcopy in this senario when it is two different boxes.

I have done something similar that might work for you.

I migrated from QDX 5.2 on an AIX 5.2 server to QDX 5.6 on a different AIX 5.3 server.

What I did was to make my QDX5.2 file system exportable as read only to my new server.

Then on my new server I did a NFS mount of the read only QDX5.2 filesystem/directories that physically reside on the old server so they look like they are on my new server that I’m upgrading to QDX5.6.

Then I was able to run hcirootcopy to migrate a site from QDX5.2 to QDX5.6 on my new box.

This also is a bit safer than upgrading on the same server in place since the NFS mounted files are read only so I can’t accidently step on what is actively running while I’m working on the upgrade.

Russ Ross
RussRoss318@gmail.com