[Spacewalk-list] RHEL5, 1.5, Oracle to RHEL6, 1.7, Postgres

[Sabuj Pattanayek]

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 <jnielsen at myriad.com> 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.
>
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