OK, thanks - I guess we'll see how it goes :) -Mike S
On 9/26/2012 7:49 PM, Michael Blakeley wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
