"Jimmy Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not upgraded to 3.1 yet. As a result, I am reading the 3.1 > Install Guide and on page 24 it has the following step: > > 2. Use NFS, FTP, or other means to return the > /var/tmp/SUNWut.upgrade/preserve_version.tar.gz > file to the Sun Ray server. > > Could someone explain what this means?
When you upgrade SRSS one of the first steps in the upgrade involves creating a copy of your SRSS configuration data so that that data can later be restored into the newly-installed version of SRSS. That copy is created by a program called 'utpreserve' which gets launched by the SRSS installer 'utinstall'. 'utpreserve' stashes the old configuration data in a compressed tar archive named /var/tmp/SUNWut.upgrade/preserve_<srss-version>.tar.gz. At the end of the install a companion program called 'utrestore' reads that archive and loads the data into the new Sun Ray data store. That's fine as long as the contents of /var/tmp stay around through the SRSS upgrade. However, if you're planning to upgrade the OS or do something else that will destroy your old SRSS installation *and* destroy the contents of /var/tmp then in that case the archive would be lost and all of your old SRSS configuration data would be gone. So, if you're plannning to do anything like that you should follow the instructions in Chapter 4 of the SRSS Install/Config Guide. That tells you how to manually run 'utpreserve' and then save the archive file to somewhere safe that will survive whatever major surgery you intend to do to the machine. After you've done that surgery you need to put the archive back onto the machine before you begin the SRSS upgrade so that it is available for 'utrestore' to use at the end of the SRSS installation procedure. That's what the step you quoted is talking about. The presentation in that manual is dreadful. It looks like someone started with a good description and then chopped it up and reassembled the pieces into random fragments of text. I'll see if I can mark it up (or rewrite it) and get the Pubs people to take the changes into the next release. OttoM. __ ottomeister Disclaimer: These are my opinions. I do not speak for my employer. -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
