Re: V7R1 Upgrade...SMTP problem

[Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just guessing but there are generally 2 reasons to leave the old bx
"as is" and do it this way:
- Less outage required to upgrade the new box doing a previous to
current release migration (1 outage compared to 2)
- Less perceived risk as the old box is available as a discrete
rollback if the upgrade goes bad (especially if there is only a prod
system)

> From my own experience it's generally nicer doing time critical
upgrades on new tin as it is much quicker - more memory, faster proc,
faster tape, faster disk. This can make a significant difference
especially if there is a lot of object conversion  required.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:36 AM,  <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just curious, why didn't they upgrade the old machine to 7.1 and just
> save/restore via unload/reload that to the new box?
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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