| Title: | DBSTARS Conference |
| Moderator: | BROKE::BASTINE |
| Created: | Wed Feb 02 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 791 |
| Total number of notes: | 1521 |
Rep Option install manual ------------------------- On page 3-8 section 3.3 the paragraph: "You do not need to upgrade your target database system to Replication Option Version 7.0 even if you upgrade the source database system to Version 7.0. However, if you decide to upgrade Replication Option on the system where your target databases reside, then you must convert any existing Rdb target databases to the latest Rdb version before executing transfers using Replication Option Version 7.0." Proposed rewrite: ---------------- "You do not need to upgrade your target database system to Rdb V7 or v6.1 (depending on which version you are using for your transfer database) even if you upgrade the source database system to Rdb V7.0. However, if you decide to upgrade to Replication Option V7 on the system where your target database resides, you either need to upgrade your target database to Rdb v7 or Rdb v6.1 (depending on the Rdb version of the transfer database) or you need to ensure that all transfers to the target database do a remote login to the target database so that the version of Rdb can be set to the version of the target database." I tested this on DBS400. Using Rep Option v7 and an Rdb v7 transfer database, an extraction transfer was able to successfully run transferring data to an Rdb v6.0 database on the same system (dbs400). I did: ...to new filename dbs400"user pass"::dir:file.rdb.
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| 790.1 | source dbs too | BROKE::BITHER | Wed May 28 1997 17:28 | 32 | |
Modify same section on source dbs too. From: BROKE::BITHER "Please reply to [email protected]" 28-MAY-1997 16:27:25.78 To: PROTEAU, GREEN CC: BITHER Subj: another possible doc error in the rep option install guide Hi Claude, Also on page 3-8, section 3.2 "Preparing the Source Database" appears to have some incorrect information. I was trying to ignore it but Don caught me! It says "...you still need to convert Rdb source databases to conform with the latest version of Rdb." I interpret that to mean that you need to convert them to the same Rdb version as your transfer database. However, I conducted a test here on dbs400 and found that not to be true. Rep Option v7, Rdb 6.1 transfer db. Logged into an Rdb 6.1 account. Attached remotely to an Rdb 6.0 source database and defined an extraction transfer to transfer data from the 6.0 db to a 6.1 db. This worked. Could we modify the doc to something like: "Source databases do not need to be upgraded to the version of Rdb that you are using (7.0 or 6.1). However, if you are not going to upgrade your source databases to the same Rdb version as your transfer database, and they reside on the same system as your transfer database, then, when defining a transfer, you must attach to the source database through a remote login that sets the Rdb version to the same Rdb version as the source database." Thanks, Diane | |||||