Re: save and restore to do OS upgrade

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Larry,

I may be in the minority, but I have done it.. more than once.  Just did it
from V5R4 to V7R2.

But, I don't do system saves for that.  I do the same thing I do on my
PCs.  I save only "non system" programs, objects and data.  That way I just
take a fresh machine, restore everything and go.

I save everything to a couple different local PCs as save/zip files, and
also upload them to 2 cloud drives as backups.

PC restoration takes about 2 hours.  It's reinstalling programs (like
Quickbooks) that takes the most time.  but as more applications move to the
cloud, it makes this even easier.  QB is probably the only one I don't move
to the cloud yet.  (Multiple companies is easier and cheaper on a PC
program).

IBM i restoration takes even less time...  FTP the save files up, RSTLIB,
maybe add a couple settings, start HTTP servers and go.

Once in a while there are IFS authority issues to work out, but those are
minor.

Brad
www.bvstools.com


On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Ketzes, Larry <lketzes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello all,
>                 I know how bad this is to do for about a hundred reasons,
> but I want to know if it is even possible.  I have a satellite office that
> wants to perform a full save at 5.3 (don't ask), then restore it to a 7.1
> system.  I was always under the impression that you could skip on version
> but no more.  So that they could go from 5.3, skip 5.4, and land on 6.1.
> But 7.1 does not jive with my understanding of what is possible.
>
>
> Thanks, Larry
>
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