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RE: GFI Mailarchiver Upgrade - 10.Nov.2005 10:30:00 AM
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jonathanhaun
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I set the initial size of the new MARC DB to 90% of the original DB. I also configured the new MARC DB to grow in intervals of 25%. Given the fact that the new database was exactly 11% smaller than the original, I would assume that the settings mentioned in the previous posts had very little to due with the speed of my upgrade process. Again, it took 5 days to complete the upgrade of an 11GB database.
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RE: GFI Mailarchiver Upgrade - 10.Nov.2005 12:00:00 PM
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ssi
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Unable to upgrade from v2 to v3. Have a few errors in the log, the upgrade tool gets to the white screen that is supposed to show the number of records to update, it shows nothing insted, the hourglass comes on and stays on. The application becomes unresponsive.
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RE: GFI Mailarchiver Upgrade - 10.Nov.2005 9:48:00 PM
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josephd
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ssi,
please make sure that the GFI MailArchiver service for MailArchiver3 is running.
Joseph D'Emanuele
GFI Software Ltd
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RE: GFI Mailarchiver Upgrade - 11.Nov.2005 6:58:00 AM
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TimothyGaray
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FWIW, I'm having the same frustrations.
I have 3 MA2 databases to upgrade to MA3. The most recent has 350,000 emails and the other two have 250,000 each.
I haven't gotten the 350,000 upgraded yet. It died about 65% of the way through (locked up). I have it running on a separate (unused) server right now since the first attempt slowed the Exchange server & backup operations down so much it was almost unusable.
I'm trying the plan to create the destination MA3 database as big enough to begin with to house all 3 combined together.
Same scenario: starts off fast then exponentially gets slower. In the beginning it was doing 35,000/hour.
When (if) these get done, I have gads of PST files to import into it as well...
-Tim
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RE: GFI Mailarchiver Upgrade - 14.Nov.2005 2:41:00 AM
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jonathanhaun
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Has anyone tried to install MARC3 on the SQL server and then run the upgrade tool directly on the SQL server? If so was the upgrade process still time consuming?
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RE: GFI Mailarchiver Upgrade - 14.Nov.2005 3:30:00 AM
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TimothyGaray
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Whelp... it ran all weekend and didn't even make it half-way through 350,000 emails... That's with creating the MA3 database big enough to begin with to hold all the databases to be converted.
BTW, I have it running on the same server as SQL Server 2000 right now (fortunately a server that is no longer used for anything else). It is a dual-Xeon 1.26GHz machine.
Question: MARC3 appears to be hung up right now, if I kill the program and start it again will it start from the beginning or pickup where it left off?
Thanks!
-Tim
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RE: GFI Mailarchiver Upgrade - 14.Nov.2005 3:42:00 AM
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jonathanhaun
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Yes. The utility will start from where you left off. I had to restart the process 5 or more times and each time it started from where it left off. We processed 500000 emails and the upgrade took 5 days to complete. It is an extremely time consuming process regardless of the hardware used to operate the SQL server and exchange server.
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RE: GFI Mailarchiver Upgrade - 15.Nov.2005 3:49:00 AM
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ssi
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Thanks, josephd, that fixed the migration problem.
One further question. During the upgrade the GFI MailArchiver 3 software defaulted to storing the data into an access database. I would like to know if there is a strategy to move those archived messages into the SQL server. (about 100 records) I had to re-configure the MailArchiver3 to point to the sql server after the upgrade. (took me a while to figure out why the records wern't being written to the sqldb)
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RE: GFI Mailarchiver Upgrade - 16.Nov.2005 8:37:00 PM
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jfolsom
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Based on jdh2n's and Tim's experience with pre-sizing the database having no effect on the transfer process, this weekend we re-setup our MARC2 database on a test server and re-ran the transfer utility using three schenarios:
1. MARC upgrade process running on remote PC (MARC3 database pre-sized).
2. MARC upgrade process running on SQL server (MARC3 database pre-sized).
3. MARC upgrade process running on SQL Server (MARC3 database not pre-sized).
In both instances where the MARC upgrade process was running locally on the SQL server, the process completed successfully (no crashes) and *relatively* quickly (6hrs, 40mins when database was pre-sized; 7hrs, 10mins when database was not pre-sized). When the upgrade process was run from a remote PC, it continually crashed and we cancelled the install after 20+ hours. We are trying it remotely from another PC right now, but it has already crashed about a dozen times so I'm not holding-out any hope. Not sure what is causing the transfer process to crash repeatedly/slow-down when initiated from a remote PC, but, at least with our dataset (250K records, 35GB), running the process local to the SQL Server made a significant difference.
Josh
[ November 17, 2005, 02:38 AM: Message edited by: jfolsom ]
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RE: GFI Mailarchiver Upgrade - 17.Nov.2005 11:11:00 AM
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jonathanhaun
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Was the LAN 10/100 or 10/100/1000?
It could be a bandwidth issue.
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RE: GFI Mailarchiver Upgrade - 17.Nov.2005 12:21:00 PM
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jfolsom
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1Gbe connected to same switch.
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