yea, I'm going to have to do the same thing but from SW 1.0 and oracle express.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Jason M. Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking for recommendations on how to go about a major system upgrade > from: > > RHEL5 > SW 1.5 > Oracle 11g > > to: > > RHEL6 > SW 1.7 > Postgres > > > My first thought was: > )Upgrade existing system to 1.7 as per the normal. > )Shutdown SW. > )Dump db for use in postgres. > )Backup data(ssl, jabberd etc) again. > )NOTE: /var/satellite is an NFS mount. > )Shutdown system. > )Rebuild system with same name but on updated RHEL6. > )Mount the /var/satellite nfs. > )Install Postgres > )Install SW 1.7 using postgres. > )Shutdown SW. > )Push the Oracle dump back into posgres by following the OracleToPosgres > wiki page. > > Seems like I would at least have some SSL issues client side with this. Easy > enough to solve. > > What else is busted about that process or is there a better route? ie: Build > an entirely new system and somehow sync everything to it while both are > live. > > I considered just trying to upgrade the existing system from RHEL5 to 6 but > RH doesnt really "support" that so I tend to avoid it and opt for clean > installs. > > I would have snapshots of the original system and oracle before the first > upgrade. The /var/satellite NFS share though I would not which is a bit > dodgy at best. Though I might have a way around this. > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
