Re: Painless Release 2000

[Ruth Helwig <ruth.m.helwig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We are a software only site running on AIX.  We upgraded December 17th.  We had no
problems with the upgrade.

"Laurance R. Mitlin" wrote:

> 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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> Keven Riggle                    Phone:  (414) 288-3253
> Systems Librarian                       Fax:      (414) 288-7813
> Marquette University Libraries
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