Hey all: I've been peppering the list with some Exchange 2000 in place upgrade questions and have just a couple more. I've been testing an upgrade of a 4 Ex 5.5 server environment using an in place upgrade. It was finally decided this was the way to go because it actually appears to lessen user impact in our environment (About 10,000 Faculty/Staff/students using a client mix from POP3, IMAP, MAPI, to OWA).
Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone else has done the upgrade in production and specifically--if you waited for the background "database upgrade" to finish before you 1) applied a service pack--we will be applying sp2 and 2) waited for the background upgrade process to finish before you ran an online backup. I've tested this multiple times in our test environment and so far and it looks like it works well--patching to sp2 shortly after the post ex2k upgrade reboot, and after sp2 is finished running the backups. During the backup, the disks go crazy for about an hour (on a 60 gig database), but the log files stop growing after an hour (and a gig of logs) and then it flies right along... I just can't imagine waiting to do the backup for very long, though. We plan on upgrading all four servers in a weekend so our schedule is fairly tight. Which bring up my next questions. I've been told that both the initial database upgrade that takes place during the setup and the post setup background upgrade take a very long time. In fact one article said the "manual portion" of the upgrade takes on average 9 gig an hour. We have fairly decent test and production hardware and the longest I've seen is about 1.5 hours for a 60 gig information store. Are they including single disk ATA configurations/ in this 9 gig/hr average? I imagine so, but that certainly skews the data. Josh _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
