I am currently using Domino 7.0.2 FP1. I am going to migrate our server to 8.5 x64 version. Previously we had just copied certain system db’s such as the cluster db, etc from one version to another when we’ve upgraded in the past.
My question is, are the x64 db’s the same as the x86 dbs? Can you copy them from one server to another?
Subject: Yes but a few things you should know
All views that are currenlty built will get rebuilt so might want to run updall against everything before restarting the 64 Bit Domino Server… Also, all FT Indexes will get rebuilt, so don’t bother copying those over… . The updall will take care of that as well… Might want to use .ind files to run multiple updall tasks at the same time to get this done quicker…
Subject: yes
NSF files are written in a platform independent manner. Of course if you use DAOS then you should not copy nsf’s around ( you should replicate or pack them back into self contained nsf’s first) because DAOS objects are by default encrypted with the server’s key and are not therefore transportable