| Title: | *OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference |
| Notice: | Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1 |
| Moderator: | IOSG::PYE |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 23 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4343 |
| Total number of notes: | 18308 |
*** FILES MODIFIED BY AN UPGRADE ?? ***
Hi,
An upgrade of my customers cluster is looming this weekend (from V2.3
to V3.0). Being this close tends to concentrate the mind on what to do
if it all goes wrong !! Having formulated an implementation plan, I
have been asked to help with a back-out plan.
Before anything is done full image backups of the entire system will be
taken and this is our position of last resort. Given the time it would
take to restore these if required (approx. 20 hrs) I need to see if its
possible to identify only the disks where files have changed or been
added or deleted.
My plan is to recover any disk pointed at by an ALL-IN-1 logical
(OA$*). Appendix B of the base installation guide also lists the files
affected in non ALL-IN-1 directories ie. not pointed at by an OA$*
logical. So this tells me what else I need to recover in SYS$LIBRARY,
SYS$MESSAGE, SYS$SYSTEM, SYS$STARTUP and SYS$SYSDEVICE:[LCI.LEXICONS].
I imagine this covers 99% of changes, but its that last 1% I need to
know about. Listed below are some of these other files I think will
have changed. Have I missed any ??
Thanks in advance,
John
Files per-user:
WPSDEF.WPL
DOCDB.DAT
DAF.DAT (?)
ATTENDEE.DAT (?)
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1563.1 | No user files changed! | IOSG::PYE | Graham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's Apprentice | Tue Oct 06 1992 14:39 | 18 |
The installation doesn't change *any* files in the user directories!
Any conversions (e.g. Nicknames) or creations (e.g. FILECAB.DAT) are
done the first time the user logs in. Hence you don't need to restore
these.
Also, you shouldn't need to take the stuff in LCI$LEXICONS away, since
it wasn't used by V2.4.
Similarly in SYS$SHARE,MESSAGE etc, you don't need to remove any OAFC*
new stuff brought in for the FCS.
Good Luck,
Graham
PS Of course, I'd say that you are wasting your time considering that
the installation could possibly fail :-)
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