This section details upgrading from a D3 Linux system without performing a full file restore. The upgrade
updates the Monitor, ABS, and data files of the dm account and the
master dictionaries of all other accounts.
Warning: Beginning with release 7.4, the frame size changed from 2 KB to 4KB. You must
perform a file-save before installing D3 because you need to do a full restore and cannot
upgrade with data files in place if you are upgrading from a system release 7.4 or prior.
See Upgrading with a file-save tape.
Note: Upgrading with data files in place is only supported when upgrading from D3 9.0 and later to
10.3.4. You cannot
upgrade with data files in place to D3 10.3.4 from a D3 7.4.2 or D3 7.5.1 release.
Cautions
Before upgrading with data files
in place, consider these cautions:
- The ABS size is checked automatically by the pre-upgrade program.
Do not follow this
procedure if the pre-upgrade program warns that the ABS size of the new release is greater
than the ABS size of the release that is being upgraded. Instead, go to Upgrading with a file-save tape. The pre-upgrade
program also checks the existing version and frame size.
- Since this is an upgrade, changing the number of ports or disk statements will force the system
to require an upgrade using a file-save tape. Upgrading with the files in place will not be
permitted. Though the options are available, no changes should be made to the configuration
parameters.
- As part of the upgrade, customizations to the dm account might be lost.
For example, the
user-coldstart macro in the dm account is overwritten. Make a backup of
the customizations to the dm account.
- This upgrade procedure transfers spooler hold files to a data file, then shuts down the system
for the upgrade. Spooler print jobs that are not hold files are lost.
Prior to upgrading with your data files in place, be certain
to do the following:
- Perform a file-save.
Ensure that there is at least one complete file-save
(preferably two) of the system prior to starting the upgrade, and verify the save tape with
the t-verify command.
Note: A file-save tape does not back up spooler
hold files. To back up the spooler hold files, use sp-edit (cv to turn them
into items in a data file that can be saved to the file-save tape.
- Review Getting started and
complete the worksheet.
- Review Upgrade issues.
Note: The default statement to boot D3 is
d3 -0.
Although the
ap command is currently supported (the pick command is
not supported), replace the ap and pick commands with the
d3 command, as future releases of D3 might not support
ap. If the commands pick -{port} or
ap -{port} are in the inittab file, change them to
the new syntax.