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Upgrading local archives

Peter Smith  |     |  Tags:  8.0.2 archive upgrade  |  Comments (3)
As part of my current project to upgrade an organisation from 6.5 to 8.0.2, we have an issue where users have multiple local archives with editor access and enforce consistent ACLs set. We don't know what they might have called the files, and have no realistic way to get them onto a server where we could crack them open and then upgrade them.

Our solution is to write a small app that will do the following:

  • prompt the user to pick his archives from a list of the dbs on the client.
  • create a local group that matches an admin group that exists in all mail databases.
  • add a new ID - "archive admin" to that group. This ID will have no password set and have no permissions or group memberships on servers.
  • Switch the client to this ID
  • now we have manager access to the archive/s we can upgrade the design of them to mail8.ntf
  • finally - switch the user back to their own ID.
It can therefore be a self service solution - if users have local archives they just open the app ( we will send them a link, we're nice like that - suppose we could add a bookmark via policies) and they manage the upgrade of their archives themselves.

Just need to test it now :-)

Comments

1 Garrett Wolthuis      Permalink This sounds really cool! Any chance you might share it with the community by posting your solution here or on OpenNTF?

2 Jan Schulz      Permalink Hm, does that not work the same as with the name change: just do a manual replication with the replica page and be done? I've consistent ACL on and my mailfile was upgraded? Or is this a problem with multiple archives?

3 Peter Smith      Permalink @1 - when we finish building it we'll post it!
"2 - this is multiple old local archives that are not linked to the mail file anymore - real pain!


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