RE: In-Place Upgrade in a simple environment

Hi Jim,

Thank you for posting here.

I understand you want to do is an in-place upgrade of the NT4 server to
Win2K3 and now you want to know given that our drives are simply mirrored,
if you need to perform the backup (Which we were doing anyway.), break the
mirror, perform the upgrade and then convert to dynamic disks and recreate
the mirror. If I have misunderstood your concern, please feel free to let
me know.

Yes, you are right that you must perform just as it is said in the book.
You need to backup the volumes, break the mirror, perform upgrade and then
restore everything.

In addition, I would like to provide some articles for your reference:

Mirroring Prevents Pre-Installing the Recovery Console
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;229077

Mirroring traditional volumes
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/qna/1213.html

HTH!

Thanks & Regards

Amanda Wang [MSFT]

Microsoft Online Partner Support

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>From: "Jim Satterfield" <jsatterfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: In-Place Upgrade in a simple environment
>Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:02:32 -0500
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>We have a fairly simple environment consisting of one NT4 server that is
our
>PDC (no BDC) with four SCSI drives that are NTFS and using software RAID 1,
>an older Netware 3.12 server for legacy software connected to our NT server
>via Gateway Services and another NT4 server at a remote location with trust
>relationships with the PDC via a VPN. Our router handles the VPN duties so
>there is no VPN software involved. The NT4 server is a Dell Poweredge 2300
>with dual Pentium III 450 Mhz processors and 768 MB of RAM.
>
>What we want to do is an in-place upgrade of the NT4 server to Win2K3.
While
>I understand that it is not recommended I don't see any real problems
except
>for one. In the Microsoft Press book on migrating it states that all
>multi-disk volumes must be backed up and then deleted, the upgrade
performed
>and then everything restored. Given that our drives are simply mirrored
>couldn't we perform the backup (Which we were doing anyway.), break the
>mirror, perform the upgrade and then convert to dynamic disks and recreate
>the mirror?
>
>
>Jim
>
>
>

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