RealHeavyDude
Well-Known Member
OE 11.7
Just to clarify: As per my understanding OE Replication requires the source and target databases to reside on the same platform. As far as I know ( I vaguely remember my sole forays into OE Replication back in 2003? ), you need to start OE Replication with a backup of the source database on the target. That will effectively rule out a different platform for the target.
Am I correct?
I think so.
Nevertheless, since I am now in the inception phase of the project to migrate our Progress server backends off of Solaris SPARC onto RHEL x86, we reached out to our Progress account manager to talk about the the platform change. Mostly we are concerned about the grace period where we are allowed to run both licences as the migration through all environments will take us about a year. But, our biggest concern is that we have to copy the binary dump files of the 1 TB large database across the network and the time it will take as everything else like NFS file systems or USB devices are disapproved. So the Progress account manger - who clearly wants to sell us OpenEdge Replication - said, that we could use it for the database migration from Solaris SPARC to RHEL x86: Start with an empty database on Linux - enable OE Replication and off we go ...
Unfortunately project management and the business stakeholder bought into that idea and I need to convince them that it won't work.
Thanks in advance.
Just to clarify: As per my understanding OE Replication requires the source and target databases to reside on the same platform. As far as I know ( I vaguely remember my sole forays into OE Replication back in 2003? ), you need to start OE Replication with a backup of the source database on the target. That will effectively rule out a different platform for the target.
Am I correct?
I think so.
Nevertheless, since I am now in the inception phase of the project to migrate our Progress server backends off of Solaris SPARC onto RHEL x86, we reached out to our Progress account manager to talk about the the platform change. Mostly we are concerned about the grace period where we are allowed to run both licences as the migration through all environments will take us about a year. But, our biggest concern is that we have to copy the binary dump files of the 1 TB large database across the network and the time it will take as everything else like NFS file systems or USB devices are disapproved. So the Progress account manger - who clearly wants to sell us OpenEdge Replication - said, that we could use it for the database migration from Solaris SPARC to RHEL x86: Start with an empty database on Linux - enable OE Replication and off we go ...
Unfortunately project management and the business stakeholder bought into that idea and I need to convince them that it won't work.
Thanks in advance.