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From: ckw@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Chick Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Internet Domain Server?  X11R3?  TWM?  7.0?  Anon FTP?
Message-ID: <-286539980@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 89 20:38:16 GMT
References: <28955@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>Will release 7.0 require a complete tape backup and restoration of the 
>system? If there is any way to avoid this, I will get down on my knees 
>and beg.  It takes about 8 hours to upgrade 24 machines via a network.  
>It takes several days of drudgery to upgrade 24 machines by tape.
>If 7.0 requires a complete tape backup, I will not bother upgrading the
>remaining machines to 6.5, and just wait for 7.0.

To my knowledge, which goes further back than I'd care to admit, we've
never *required* a complete backup and restore in order to update from
one version of HP-UX to another.  The 7.0 release is no exception, and
it is possible to update directly from 6.5.  Regardless of that there
may be a problem in your case, since we only support upgrading to 7.0
from 6.5.  So, even though 7.0 will be shipping soon, it looks like
you'll have to update all the machines to get there.

That's the bad news.  The good news is that 7.0 will allow you to update
a single system from tapes, set it up as a server for network-based
updates, then update the rest via the network.  Since simultaneous
updates of multiple systems from the same "netdist" server are possible,
this should save you a considerable amount of time.  This capability has
been used extensively within HP during the 7.0 development phase, and it
really is wonderful.

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>Dan Greening       | NY 914-789-7861 | 14 Foster Court

Chick Webb                          "Common sense is not so common."
Hewlett-Packard Company              -- Voltaire
Cupertino, CA
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