Hello,
i have to migrate another SAP content server to a newer platform.
It is running on a Windows 2000 server and the database build is 7.3.00.20 which is quite old!!!
Because of the OS i´m not sure how to update the database to 7.6 in an easy way.
The new server for this is a Server 2008R2 system where i will install a new empty databsae (version 7.6.003.09) and then to restore the backup from the old content server there. For that reason i have to migrate the 7.3 database in any way to 7.6.
In fear of touching the old server i got a strange (or maybe crazy) idea:
If i can get a server2003 system for the migration phase from our IT i would use this system as a "whistle stop". I would install the latest 7.3 database version (7.3.00.35) there followed by a recovery of the backup from the old server.
After that to migrate the database on the Server2003 system to version 7.6 and a final backup from here should be possible to be recovered on the destination server.
The database itself isn´t too big, it´s about 80GB big.
Does anyone of the forum experts see a more elegant way for such a migration?
Thank you in advance
Martin Schneider