Hard to be sure, but my guess is that backup and restore will be faster than XQSync, even with the need to reindex.
-- Mike On 26 Sep 2012, at 15:41 , Michael Sokolov wrote: > I am working out a plan to upgrade a heavily-used production environment > from 4.1 to 5.0. We don't want to bring a server off line for an > extended reindex while the upgrade happens so we are spinning up a > temporary server to handle the load while we do this. My question is > whether it would be faster to: > > 1) back up the forests on the existing database (saving across the > network to the new server?), and then restore the 4.1 forests into the > 5.0 installation, letting it do its reindexing (is that even possible) - or > > 1b) restore to a new 4.1 install, and then upgrade it, waiting for the > reindexing > > or > > 2) copy the data across using xqsync; this will avoid the need for > reindexing > > anyone care to hazard a guess? I'm not really sure how to find out > without trying it > > -Mike Sokolov > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
