IXOS HDSK Migration
Mar 25, 2022

IXOS HDSK Migration

MNX Solutions works on many UNIX based systems, one of which is IXOS (now called OpenText).We needed to migrate from WORM (9.1GB) media to a hard disk based configuration for performance, scalability and disaster recovery purposes. Below is the high level procedure I used during the migration to migrate from WORM to HDSK, on IXOS EconServer 5.5C..

  • Create temporary logical archive XX
  • Create temporary Disk pool, HDSK_<Logical Arch> under /ixos/migration/migr/<Logical Arch>
  • Create log directory /ixos/migration/migr/<Logical Arch>_log
  • Run buffer purge
  • Write WORM
  • Migrate pool using utilities pool migration
  • From <Logical_Arch>_<POOL> i.e. T3_T3_WORM
  • To <Logical_arch>_<POOL> i.e. XX_HDSK_T3
  • If errors,..
  • Partition check Against database Run again with recovery method if errors
  • database against partition run again with recovery method if errors
  • Eject original
  • Promote backup to original
  • Partition check Against database Run again with recovery method if errors
  • Database against partition run again with recovery method if errors
  • Detach partition from original pool, remove pool
  • Detach disk partition from XX Logical archive
  • Create new pool [HDSK] for migrated archive, select existing Disk partition that was used during migration.
  • Maybe remove any jobs associated with logical archives, that you wish not run anymore.
  • Create a backup of the new HDSK partition and ensure that regular backups are scheduled and running.

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