RE: side-by-side upgrade

Mike,

You didn't tell us what version you were running on the old server.
Do you have stuff in the IFS or do you just need to migrate your user
libraries the 2nd time?

6 Hours for PTFs? The BP did something very very wrong. On the
smallest Power6 machine, with 2 disk drives and 4GB of memory, it would take
less than 4 hours to apply PTFs. Are you using the latest I_BASE_01 CD for
V5R4M5 install? 6 hours is unheard of on a small power 6 machine for PTFs.
Did they know you could apply multiple groups and the cumulative at once?

There are many solutions to your problem when it comes to the
restore. Save of your security and user libraries and just restore that may
work if you are only updating libraries and have no IFS objects (if so, you
would need to back them up and restore those as well).

Pete

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Cunningham
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:16 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: side-by-side upgrade

We purchased a new power 6 system as an upgrade and are able to run both the
old and new systems side by side. Our BP installed V5R4M5 on the new system
and then we did a full save (option 21) on the current system and a full
restore to the new. They the BP installed the most recent PFTs. Total time
to backup was about 4 hours, total time to restore was about 4 hours. Adding
in the PFTs added another 6. 14 hours total downtime to make the switch. We
are going to check out the new system to be sure everything is there and
running and looks good and then schedule a weekend to make the final
cutover. Since the only thing that is going to change is our data could we
safely do a save (option 21) and then just restore userprofiles and our
libraries? BP would like to blow away everything and start from installing
V5R4M5 again, then a full restore and all the PFTs again. Looking to save
that extra 6 hours of downtime.