We have been running Bb Basic for a couple of years and upgraded from 5
to 6 successfully under RH7.2 while waiting for RHAS support. Now we
need to get out from under RH7.2 because of its memory limitations, so
we have brought up RHAS and Bb 6.1 with SS_Oracle on the standby machine
but then discovered that the Migration Tool only applies to migrations
from 5 to 6, not 6.0 to 6.1
The only path Blackboard can recommend is to install 6.0 on the standby
machine and do a dump-and-restore of the database and Bb data, and then
repeat the process in reverse to get back onto the production machine,
and then (presumably) upgrade Bb itself in-place to get from 6.0 to 6.1
to 6.2 to 6.3. The doc they provide gives huge quantities of Oracle
commands to type manually to do this, but no script, and by now we have
pretty much lost faith in their documentation and their recommendations.
Has anyone any better suggestions (apart from move to Moodle :-)
///Peter
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