From: Ron Bramblet (bramblet@FULLER.COM)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 13:46:11 EST
Simon,
I did not go into all of the steps but it looks like there are several reboots.
I have instructions from P21 and they say to reboot at least 4 times in the
migration from 4.2.1 to and including the Maintence Level update.
When you say 4 hours is that including the migration or everything. P21 told me
that the migration (because it is on tape) could take 4 hrs itself.
"Green, Simon" wrote:
> I would say that you should apply the maintenance as well; there are fixes
> for problems which could stop your system from running. I don't see any
> reason to take a system backup after the basic 433 upgrade; do it after the
> maintenance is on.
>
> These upgrades don't normally take all that long, depending on what filesets
> you have installed already. I think four hours might be sufficient.
>
> You will need to reboot the server after the update. It might be worth
> rebooting after the upgrade to 433, then again after the maintenance, but
> you should be OK to do just the one at the end.
>
> Simon Green
> Philip Morris ITSC Europe
>
> AIX-L Archive at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=aix-l&r=1&w=2
> AIX FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/
>
> N.B. Unsolicited email from vendors will seldom be appreciated.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ron Bramblet [mailto:bramblet@FULLER.COM]
> > Sent: 11 November 2002 15:39
> > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> > Subject: Migrating from 4.2.1 to 4.3.3
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a RS/6000 7025-F40 machine that is currently running AIX 4.2.1
> > and Prophet21.
> > As Systems Admin I have been tasked with the upgrade of this machine.
> > P21 has chosen the software and also the hardware. I have all of that
> > ready. My boss was under the impression that P21 would do all of the
> > upgrade. I talked to T/S from P21 and they told me no it
> > would be me to
> > do the upgrade.
> >
> >
> > Are there any known issues that I need to look for when doing this
> > migration?
> > I have notes from Prophet21 on how to do it but I was curious
> > if someone
> >
> > else had done the migration / update and if there are issues I need to
> > look for.
> >
> > Here is the basic steps as I understand it.
> >
> > 1) P21 Backup and AIX backup
> > 2) Migration of current version via tape to 4.3.1
> > 3) At least an AIX backup here. (Do I need to do the P21
> > Backup here
> > also?)
> > 4) Upgrade of System to 4.3.3 via CD-ROM
> > 5) AIX Backup here (Do I need to do P21 Backup here also?)
> > 6) AIX Maintenance Level 08 Update.
> > 7) P21 and AIX Backup
> >
> > Can I stop after step 4 if I run out of time? Or do I need to
> > finish it
> > all.??
> > Any comments will be greatly appreciated. I have done an upgrade to
> > another version of UNIX server but not AIX.
-- Ron Bramblett Systems Administrator Fuller Brush Company
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