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.