I am about to run an upgrade from 8.0 to 8.0.1 on my SLES10 server this weekend, but I am not having any luck locating any documentation on running it as an upgrade? I have been led to believe I just run the install, and once finished, fire up Domino and get back to business as usual (with the new version, of course) but I would love some feedback or a link to written UPGRADE documentation.
Thanks in advance.
Subject: Yup
The Domino server install on ALL platforms simply installs the proper binaries for the new version. When you start Domino server for the first time afterward the Notes.ini parameter
FaultRecovery_Build=
Which contains the version of the last working build will be checked. At that point, Domino will determine that this server has been upgraded, and process and design changes to names.nsf (or others) that need to be processed.
Because of this, it is advised that you run your Domino server in a foreground mode rather than as a “service”. In linux simply
su -l dominoserver
where dominoserver is the *nix user ID that you assigned to the Domino server. Then type
/opt/ibm/lotus/bin/server
This will fire up the server in the foreground where you can interact with the console (usually to respond yes to upgrading names.nsf).
Once done, type quit, and once down, restart Domino as you normally would.
NOTE: It is VERY IMPORTANT that you run Domino in the foreground as the user assigned to it, and NOT as root or you will have problems.