If it is the same box, you could migrate first to 817 on NT and then do an
in-place upgrade of NT to W2K.
I wouldn't recommend the in-place upgrade though. After the migration to
817 on NT I would backup the db to tape and then rebuild the machine afresh
with W2K, reinstall 817 and then restore the db backup. That's the method
I'm following on our migration.
--
Terry Dykstra
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
"Dino Hsu" <dino1_at_ms1.hinet.net> wrote in message
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> Dear all,
>
> If we are going to upgrade from 8.0.5 on Windows NT SP3 to 8.1.7 for
> Windows 2K (Compaq proliant server with 80G HDD from 6x18.2G RAID
> disks, 1G RAM, 4 Intel CPU's), i.e., database as well as the OS, how
> would you plan to do it for an OLAP database (a reasonable down-time
> is allowed) with tens of giga bytes data. I wish I don't have to
> format my disk so that I can keep them there as they are without the
> hustles of moving them around.
>
> I need real world strategy, if your answer is 'go for some
> documentation' kind of stuff as usually did by S* B*, please do not
> post. Thanks in advance.
>
> Dino
>
Received on Mon Jun 25 2001 - 10:25:16 CDT
