Tim,

I cannot thank you enough. That was the solution! Weeks of tearing our hair 
out...
We are wiser (if less hirsute) now, thank you:)

Romana

On Friday, June 17, 2022 at 11:42:19 PM UTC+9:30 Tim Donohue wrote:

> Hi,
>
> No that is definitely not normal behavior, especially for a relatively 
> small collection (36GB isn't that large).  I would highly recommend 
> checking the dspace.log (log files) to see if you are receiving errors or 
> warnings.  If you are seeing no activity in the logs then the process has 
> likely stopped completely and nothing is actively changing.
>
> As a sidenote, it's also worth noting that there's no need to do an export 
> (to AIPs) and reimport (from AIPs) when moving from 5.8 to 7.2.   The 
> easier way to do this upgrade is to simply follow the upgrade instructions: 
> https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Upgrading+DSpace   If the 5.8 
> database is on a different machine, it's still possible to do this same 
> sort of upgrade, but you'd need a few extra steps:
> 1. First, it may be easiest to install DSpace 7 without any data first 
> (just to make sure everything works well).  Once satisfied, stop Tomcat 
> (backend)
> 2. Copy your entire database contents to your new database (e.g. for 
> Postgres, use tools like pg_dump and pg_restore). This copies all 
> metadata/relationships over to the new server
> 3. Copy over your entire [dspace]/assetstore folder (including all 
> subdirectories) to the new location. This copies all files over to the new 
> server.
> 4. Run "./dspace database migrate ignored" to upgrade your database/data 
> up to 7.x compatibility
> 5. Start Tomcat (backend) & frontend
> 6. Finally, reindex all content into the search engine (Run "./dspace 
> index-discovery -b")
>
> It's really hard to give you better advice as it's unclear what could be 
> going on based on what you've shared.  But, this doesn't sound like normal 
> behavior.
>
> If you find anything else in the logs that are clues, let us know on this 
> list.
>
> Tim
>
> On Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 6:53:24 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Hi all, 
>> Inherited a system that is old (5.8), on an EOL box, and is having real 
>> issues post Log4j and some necessary network changes. Finally got 
>> permission to do a new version, so we are importing our Library collection 
>> into 7.2. We have 36G in our assetstore.
>>
>> /opt/dspace/bin/dspace packager -r -a -k -t AIP -o 
>> skipIfParentMissing=true -e <ADMIN_EMAIL>-i <HANDLE>/0 
>> /opt/AIP/fac_site.zip
>>
>> Current Meta-data Entry Count is 1530880
>>
>> However, this process has been running for about seven weeks now! 
>>
>> 1. Is this normal?
>> 2. Is there any way we can see how much longer it will take? (management 
>> is nervous, understandably, as the current live version is very fragile)
>> 3. Is there anyway to expedite this?
>>
>> Thanks very much for any assistance that can be offered.
>>     
>>
>

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