I have an application in a ND7 I will move it to ND8. The application is really big around 7 GB with thousend of documents. What do you think is best practice to make a copy of this db in the new server or to make a new replica?
Actually is there any document about application upgrade best-practices?
Subject: It should work both ways
and I would not be aware of such a documentation
Subject: What’s the reason for wanting to convert the application (database)
Notes applications are very seldom subject to upgrade issues between main releases. In fact apps. originalliy made for v3 are still in good use.
The normal procedure when upgrading to a new main release, though, is to test apps. in a test environment before making the switch.
The only thing you should consider for the upgraded server is to upgrade the ODS (On Disk Structure) and rebuild the indexes in the databases.
You can find more info on upgrade and best practices in the following two redbooks:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4120.html
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247506.html
Also doing some google’ing on the subject will give you tons of info…
Good luck
Ove