Callpilot 5.0 (1002rp - 1006r migration) 3

[golfdoctor]

Am just researching our pending platform change from an old 1002RP (war horse) to a new 1006R (stand alone). Presently running 5.0 and am relatively up to date with the peps (154 vs 16x something last time I looked) My concern is the data migration. Because of the different tape drives and platforms I do not see any way other than backing up the data to/from the network. Problem is this process is significantly slower than the existing tape drive. For a full backup I am looking at 30 plus hours for 21 gig of data. The 1002rp has no USB connections and utilizes an internal scsi tape. The new platform uses a USB connection and different tape/cartridge platform. (PIA)

Couple of questions -
Book says to use the upgrade wizard for the data migration. Is this relevant since we are on 5.0 already? Would this allow a faster "network" backup ?

Any ideas on how to migrate the data from the 1002rp to a 1006r other than the network. I have tried different backups on the TLan network,different subnets, different computers etc. and the network backup is simply slow. (CallPilot issue not the network)

As always any ideas would be greatly appreciated...


TGD

 

[Jeffnortel]

Follow the Uprgade and Platform Migration Guide. You will need to run the Upgrade Wizard.

Its either tape or network. Network backup is the way to go... Remove Clan from the network and connect directly to a standalone data switch. I normally backup to a laptop.

http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100124428

 

[golfdoctor]

Hi Jeffnortel,

Thank you for the response and suggestions.

Did not consider removing from the C/TLan and go directly to the backup device. At present I run into the system time issue between 1200 - 0400 regarding backups not being allowed.

Is it me or does the time involved for a system backup over the network seem long ?


TGD

 

[Triton101]

crossover LAN cable direct to callpilot Clan (have your IP 1 higher or lower than CLAN so you are in same subnet) and try that make a share on your laptop and use that as a destination for the backup.

network backup should not take 30 hrs!

maybe the Clan is not configured correctly, or the network share is on a very slow device (can't think of any).

but even at very slow connection sites, backups are usually done in under 4 hrs.

even at 1 meg a second 30 gigs should be done in 8.5 hrs or so....

30 hrs would mean 250k / second.... (super slow)

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[bhassell2000]

my network backup is 21Gigs and takes 21 minutes

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[golfdoctor]

Thanks for the replies

The backup times mentioned make sense to me and yes we are presently somewhere around 250k per second. I am going to have the network boys monitor the port when I run a backup to see if they can see anything. Will go to the latest pep release and try again. The upgrade wizard says I should upgrade the "raid" driver from the current level. This might cause the slow network issue wrt to read/write transactions -not sure. The present tape backup for a "full system" takes 1.5 hrs for 21 Gig.

Thanks again for the suggestions and approx timings.

TGD

 

[Triton101]

also check, if someone setup a gateway address on the ELAN nic, i have seen a huge decrease in performance (on LAN backup) because the server was trying to deposit the database via the ELAN nic (not good)

so if you put your share on the same subnet as the CLAN nic is on, that way you avoid using the gateway setting (of either nic).

might not apply to you, but something to look at.

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[golfdoctor]

Stars for all !

Thank you for the replies. Ended up being port on layer 2 switch needed to set for auto-negotiate. Hard set to 100full caused "framing errors"


Thanks again


TGD