On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Lamar Owen wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > 'K, I had already answered it as part of this thread when I suggested
> > doing exactly that ... in response to which several ppl questioned the
> > feasibility of setting up a duplicate system with >1TB of disk space to do
> > the replication over to ...
>
> The quote mentioned is a question, not an answer. You said:
> > 'k, but is it out of the question to pick up a duplicate server, and use
> > something like eRServer to replicate the databases between the two
> > systems, with the new system having the upgraded database version running
> > on it, and then cutting over once its all in sync?
>
> 'Something like eRserver' doesn't give me enough detail; so I asked if
> eRserver could do this, mentioning specific version numbers. A straight
> answer -- yes it can, or no it can't -- would be nice. So you're saying
> that eRserver can do this, right? Now if there just wasn't that java
> dependency.... Although the contrib rserv might suffice for data
> migration capabilities.
Sorry, but I hadn't actually seen your question about it ... but, yes,
erserver can do this ... as far as I know, going from, say, v7.2 -> v7.4
shouldn't be an issue either, but I only know of a few doing v7.2->v7.3
migrations with it so far ...