Brad,
It's do able, but there are quite a lot of issues to be aware of. What are you doing with QUSRSYS? That is a system library, and if you don't move it, you didn't bring over your TCP settings, your Directory entries, etc. Also, for the IFS, are you not bringing anything over, or are you over writing stuff in their?
I have done many of these, and I do it basically as a Migration/Upgrade. Note the order, migration then upgrade. On a simple system your way will work, but if you want to do it right. You put the new system with LIC and OS *ONLY*. Run your restore 21, and then when that is done, do an upgrade to the latest release over what you just restored. This will insure the latest IBM software is totally installed.
I would do a CHKPRDOPT *OPSYS on the systems you restored Brad and see if you have any issues.
Pete
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bradley Stone
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 9:18 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: save and restore to do OS upgrade
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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