RE: Painless Release 2000

["George Emery" <emeryg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Last week I upgraded to Release 2000 on our recently installed DEC 
Alpha. The process was fast and painless. Our down time for the data 
conversion and commit phase was under an hour. We have had no problems 
although a clearer picture will develop next week when the semester 
starts.

We are also installing Millennium Circulation this week and I'm hoping 
for a similar experience.

George Emery
Library Systems Coordinator
Canisius College
emeryg@xxxxxxxxxx
716-888-2927



> This was good to hear. I'd be interested in others' experiences so far with
> Release 2000.
> 
> Laurance R. Mitlin
> Associate Dean of Library Services
> Winthrop University
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-INNOPAC@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-INNOPAC@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Keven Riggle
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 1:28 PM
> To: INNOPAC@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Painless Release 2000
> 
> 
> Hello Colleagues!
> 	In September 1999, III announced the availability of Release 2000 and
> distributed the instructions for this self-install product.  I'm sure many
> of you are approaching this upgrade with a bit of intrepidation.  I
> certaintly did  - after all the instructions are 19 pages long and no one
> at III will give you a good answer as to how long this process will take.
> 
> 	I am posting this notice to tell you that the process really and truly is
> relatively painless.  We are a "turnkey" site running our InnoPAC and
> WebPac on a DEC Alpha server.  This server is housed at our campus
> computing center two blocks away and their staff perform the normal daily
> full backup duties.  Other than that they have nothing to do with the
> server or the software.
> 
> 	Last night the computing center staff ran the normal backup.  When I
> arrived this morning I began the "preparation" phase that ran a space check
> on our system, created a recovery tape, ftp'd the upgrade and pre-built
> some of the functions.  Discounting the time it took to track someone down
> at the computer center to load a fresh tape into the drive (they were
> supposed to do that last night after the backup - argh!) this phase was
> completed in 33 minutes.
> 
> 	The "commit" phase which reboots the system into "maintenance mode",
> installs and compiles the software, converts data, and then reboots the
> system was completed in 55 minutes.  That's right, in under one and a-half
> hours the entire process was completed (at least on our hardware).  I had
> originally envisioned several hours for "data conversion".  That
> "conversion" however took less than a minute, so I'm not sure what III was
> referring to as "data".  At less than a minute it's obviously not much to
> worry about.
> 
> 	So, intrepidate no longer...just do it!
> 
> Keven
> 
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