Two weeks ago , I took over 4 Alpha 2100 servers, having never had ANY
Digital Unix (OSF/1) experience at all. My background in Unix SysAd. Had all
been SUN and SGI. I have a need now to upgrade two of the servers from
3.0 and 3.1 both up to 3.2g. The thing that scares me a little is of course
what every SysAd has, losing data and not being able to restore.
Both servers are installed with advfs filesystems - root,usr and the critical one-
Oracle data. They are being backed up to a TZ86 tape loader with Networker.
Having being used to UFS filesystems, my first question is:
How will the ADVFS restore from tape differ from a UFS one? That's just in
case I need too after the upgrade.
Question number two:
What will the procedure be to upgrade? Will I use a 3.2g install CD and will
it prompt me for an initial install OR an upgrade?
I'm assuming that I can preserve my Oracle partition or volume rather. It's the
root and usr particulars that I'm worried about. Things like losing my licensing
information, or any config files that I want to be left alone.
Any hints I can get to keep downtime low would be greatly appreciated.
Wayne Sweatt
Received on Tue Dec 17 1996 - 00:24:55 NZDT