Hi.
I have a problem. Recently we decide to upgrade our domino server 4.6 to 7, but I think we don’t upgrade directly, so we do a new installation of the server. Is that correct o can we upgrade?
Thank you very much.
Subject: 4.6 → 6.5 → 7
The documentation does not mention that you can upgrade from 4.6 directly to 7. You CAN upgrade from 4.6 to 6.5 to 7. FIRST upgrade your 4.6.x server to 4.6.7, the final 4.6 release. Then upgrade to 6.5.5 and finally to 7.0.
Subject: Lawrence is right - read the Release Notes. I think you’ll want to upgrade to 4.6.7a first, then 6.5, then 7.0.
Subject: Upgrade lotus domino server 4.6 to 7
Hi Oscar,you probably also will buy some new hardware? If the hardware is as old as the 4.6 it would make sense. So this is what you do:
-
Make sure you have the latest 4.6
-
Register a new server in your existing domain
-
Install R7 on the new box
-
Set the ACL so the old server won’t replicate the design of the Domino directory
-
Replicate all databases over to the new server (there are multiple ways to do so)
-
down the old server, swap IP addresses and Notes IDs
-
Up the new server
-
Add Policies, Domino Domain monitoring, Certification authority, Web config, SMTP config etc.
--------- That should do the trick -----------
If you are new to R6/7 get a good consultant to help. That helps to avoid nasty surprises.
If you are in SE Asia, you can hire us
Hth
stw
Subject: RE: Upgrade lotus domino server 4.6 to 7
Personally I wouldn’t have done it this way. After making sure the latest release of 4.6 was installed on the old server, I’d have taken the server down and would have copied over the Domino data directory and notes.ini (via the file system) to the new server and then installed Domino7 over the top. The first time the server is started it would carry out an upgrade. Once the server was up and running I’d have swapped over IP addresses so that the new hardware had the IP address of the old server.
Subject: RE: Upgrade lotus domino server 4.6 to 7
Hi Ashley,there is a very good reason NOT to copy the databases using the file system. Notes 4 uses the ODS (On Disk structure) 20. Notes 5 41 and Notes 6/7 43. ODS is where documents and indicies live. When replicating a database to a new server (or a client) the ODS is created from scratch in the highest possible version (unless you force a lower one). Only the documents are replicated. After the replication you would end up with squeaky clean Indici. The conversion process (ncompact) had some issues with ODS20, so better do a new replica. Also when copying you might not get your OSD upgraded for the names.nsf.
Of course every approach has it’s caveats: You need to make sure your ACLs/Readers/Authors include the server group. You could skip the server creation part and replicate the databases down to a client or from the R4 server client (with R4 down) up to the new server. I did once write a tool do do so. They key is to check the ACL and do a replica rather than a file system copy.
Just my 2c
stw
Subject: RE: Upgrade lotus domino server 4.6 to 7
That was I think I had to do. I’d only like to know if they had any kind of upgrade, like when you want to upgrade from 6.5 to 7.
Thx very much.