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Domino 8 Pre & Post Upgrade Tasks When Upgrading from 6.5 and 7.x

Mindwatering Incorporated Tripp W Black on 01/14/2009 at 11:26 AM

Category: Domino Upgrades / Installations Software Upgrade

Before Upgrading: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=475&uid=swg21303385 Run fixup, updall, and compact to verify applications' integrity. Fixup -f -j -v -l or nfixup -f -j -v -l (MS Windows) NOTE: -f Exhaustive fixup, all documents are checked. -j Include transaction logged databases. Without this option, fixup does not check logged databases. -v Exclude database views (faster) for all views that will be rebuilt by updall later, no need to check view at this moment. -l Log all processed databases (optional). Updall -R -X or nupdall -R -X (MS Windows) NOTE: -R (Completely rebuilds the view indexes) -X (Completely rebuilds the full text index, if the index exist) Compact -c -i or ncompact -c -i (MS Windows) NOTE: -c Use copy-style compaction and recover unused white space -i Ignore errors and allow compact to run anyway (only for copy-style) If you are running transaction logging, be sure to use the -b switch. This is different than the upper case -B switch as -B will change the DBIID of any transactionally logged databases. Update the notes.ini: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/database-ods-version-should-be-upgraded-to-the-latest- Remove the following lines: SERVER_SESSION_TIMEOUT SERVER_MAXSESSIONS SERVER_MAXUSERS If you want your Domino 8 server to use the new ODS add the following: CREATE_R8_DATABASES=1 If you want your Domino 8.5 server to use the new ODS add the following: CREATE_R85_DATABASES=1 (remove the CREATE_R8_DATABASES=1 entry) Upgrade the Server: 1. Upgrade an Admin Client 2. Upgrade your administrative server. (The one that is the administration server of the Domino - names.nsf.) 3. Do the immediate post upgrade tasks: design -f names.nsf design -f admin4.nsf or ndesign -f names.nsf ndesign -f admin4.nsf Note: the server will automatically rebuild the $Users and the $ServerAccess views. This can take quite a while on a large directory (15,000 users = approx 30 mins). You can do this off-line and then put your directory back into place right before you reboot it. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/documentation/releasenotes/?S_TACT=105AGX13&S_CMP=LPLOTUS fixup names.nsf -f -j -v -l fixup admin4.nsf -f -j -v -l or nfixup names.nsf -f -j -v -l nfixup admin4.nsf -f -j -v -l compact names.nsf -c -i compact admin4.nsf -c -i or ncompact names.nsf -c -i ncompact admin4.nsf -c -i updall names.nsf -RX updall admin4.nsf -RX or nupdall names.nsf -RX nupdall admin4.nsf -RX 3. Replicate the directory. Note: The 8.x design is safe back to 7.x and 8.x servers. Previous design servers should not be replicating the design. (We clicked the property to Update on Admin Server. We also don't have design task running nightly on the secondary servers.