Upgrading from Ver 9.x to 10.x

[rmdasari]

Hi All :

We are planning to upgrade from Progress Ver 9.x to 10.x with QAD 2007 and wanted to find out how much time it has take for the transistion.

We are having problem with the upgrade which is almost taking around 6days and wanted to find out if we are doing something wrong.....

Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.



Regards,

Dasari

 

[Casper]

If the upgrade is product specific (mfg-pro?) then it is better to post this in the appropriate forum.
For the conversion of the database: conv910 should finish within 5 minutes.

regards,
Casper.

 

[rmdasari]

Hi Casper :

Thanks for the reply. I am talking about converting ver 9.x Progress DB to Ver 10.x

Would appreciate if you could share your experience with the conversion.



Thanks,

Dasari

 

[Casper]

If you take your database
then you can convert it like this:

• backup the database V9
• Truncate bi (still v9)
• proutil path/to/database/dbname -C conv910 (R10)

and presto there you have V10 database.

Progress assures that this should be done within 5 minutes. So I suspect you are doing something different apart from just this conversion.

Casper.

 

[TomBascom]

Casper is correct. Upgrading the database is a trivial operation. Just do as Casper says with conv910 and you're done. 5 minutes would be a long estimate.

Even upgrading the database by dumping and loading is generally fairly simple and shouldn't take more than a day, or a long weekend at worst, for all but the largest databases and then only if they're running on lousy hardware.

Upgrading an application can be a completely different story. MFG/Pro has a fairly complex process that you need to go through in order to move from one release to another. That question is best asked in the MFG/Pro forum.

 

[rmdasari]

Thanks Tom & Casper for the feedback. We have a very large db say around 100gigs and wanted to know the experiences.....


Regards,

Dasari

 

[TomBascom]

1) Size of db doesn't matter to proutil conv910, it's just changing a few block headers and such.

2) 100GB isn't especially large. It's respectable but not huge and it certainly shouldn't be taking 6 days to convert unless, perhaps, you've got an especially bad RAID5 (or a single disk) running on some really foul Windows or SCO server that has been in a closet collecting dust since 1998 or so and[ you're using it as both the source and the target of the conversion...