December 2nd, 2005
Greyhawk just moved and upgraded a Domino server in a few hours
John Roling writes up his experience moving
a Domino 6.5.4 on Windows 2000 to a Domino 7 server on Windows 2003,
in a total time of three hours.
So in the course
of 3 hours, I moved an entire Notes server from one hardware platform and
one OS to another piece of hardware and a newer OS. I then upgraded the
Notes server to version 7. The only reason it took 3 hours was because
the 60 GB transfer of the data directory took two hours :)Try that with Exchange. I dare you.
This
is one of the beauties of portable code. An NSF is an NSF is an NSF.
Very straightforward, and removes a lot of the administrative burden
of upgrading hardware. I’m not an expert, but from what I’ve read,
I think John’s dare is on solid ground. Time trials, anyone? :)
Originally by Ed Brill from Ed Brill on November 28, 2005, 6:17am
