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| 795.1 | 3.0 to 3.0 ? | UTRTSC::SCHOLLAERT | Sweden, here we come | Thu Jun 04 1992 11:53 | 14 |
| Hello Angie,
I wouldn't use 2.1 and 2.3 for the account tranfer. To many
bugs, horrible to recover after failure.
Why not upgrade the 2.1 system to 3.0 and tranfer
from 3.0 to 3.0. Safer, faster, less disk space.
Regards,
Jan
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| 795.2 | Network? Xfer is Slow! | IOSG::PYE | Graham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's Apprentice | Thu Jun 04 1992 12:53 | 11 |
| Why do tape transfers? I assume the two nodes will be network
connectable?
But apart from the "opportunities" (I wouldn't dream of using the "B**"
word about my friends' code :-) ) in Transfer User, if you have any
sort of amount of users, it wil take a *LONG* time to transfer them.
Also, you end up using a lot more disc space in the Mail shared areas,
since most of the documents will become unshared.
Graham
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| 795.3 | | IOSG::TALLETT | Arranging bits for a living... | Thu Jun 04 1992 12:59 | 29 |
| Hi there!
First off, I'd try to put them off the 8250's. They are a very
breathless machine. I also went from an 11/750 to a 8250 as a
customer and I was very dissapointed. I think the 8250/8350's
use the XMI bus to access memory for cost savings, which is a real
bottleneck. We upgraded our 8250 to an 8350 but it was still a
dog. The 8550 is a real monster in comparison, and much better
value for money. If you look at the spec, you'll see its very
similar to an 8700, but for much less money (and without some of
the expansion possibilities - bi deal).
Anyway, back to ALL-IN-1. Yes, I'd agree with Jan, this sounds more
like an upgrade excercise - you should steer clear of Transfer
User for doing things like this. I wouldn't even do the V3.0 to
V3.0 transfer that Jan suggests, its too much hassle. Easier to
just do upgrades and disk copies in this case.
I'd go for the big-bang approach and do the upgrade over a weekend.
Do they have computer room space to install the 8xx0 alongside the
11/750's? Then they could do a fresh install of V3.0, develop the
customisations, then throw away the 8xx0 VMS and V3.0 system and
do the upgrade from the 750s. Come to think of it, they could
probably do the customisations by renting a 16Mb VAXstation 3100
and doing it all standalone - no need for the 8xx0 to start with.
Regards,
Paul
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| 795.4 | Notesclash, but we seem to have consesus! | IOSG::TALLETT | Arranging bits for a living... | Thu Jun 04 1992 13:05 | 1 |
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| 795.5 | Be careful with manual copy | UTRTSC::SCHOLLAERT | Sweden, here we come | Thu Jun 04 1992 13:27 | 21 |
| Hello,
Paul,
> V3.0 transfer that Jan suggests, its too much hassle. Easier to
> just do upgrades and disk copies in this case.
I didn't finish Terry Porters hidden but perfect FCS document yet,
but the impact of copiing ALL-IN-1 3.0 data "manual" from node to node
or from disk to disk bigger than it was with 2.4.
Correct ?
Graham,
When you are in the field, you tend to adopt customer terminology.
They report bugs, not opportunities. I will wash my mouth.
Regards,
Jan
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| 795.6 | I bet Anneka Rice could do it | AIMTEC::WICKS_A | Liverpool win the F.A Cup again! | Mon Jun 08 1992 22:42 | 17 |
| Paul had two suggestions in .3 one of which I hope was a joke (:==:)
With only 48 hours in a standard weekend are there enough assuming
you go without sleep to
a) run the PIT and upgrade to 2.3 (and do the manual post-install)
b) run pre-check and upgrade to 3.0
on an 11/750?
A fresh sounded the more sensible one and would allow the person doing
the installing to be fresher for the new week.
of course doing the upgrades separate weekends would be much more
sensible.
Regards,
Andrew.D.Wicks
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