Alternate transport directory during Upgrade

[Former Member]

Hello Everyone,

We have started Prepare Phase on Production after completion of Development, here Problem we are getting now is Transport directory (DIR_TRANS=/usr/sap/trans) of production machine is a Symbolic Link which physically exist on Development system.

If we use the same directory then probably Upgrade is going to run for a very long time or may be forever as physical directory is on a different machine altogether.

Could any one please guide if we can use a local alternate DIR_TRANS for production upgrade.

Regards,

Shafi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Shafi,

you can change the trans dir - that is a bit effort and makes transportation pretty complicated.

If you go with this remotely, only one phase during Prepare takes 2-3h longer than with the physical directory. Then the stuff is copied and works locally from the put directory => no performance difference ...

=> I would leave it as it is ...

Regards

Volker Gueldenpfennig, consolut international ag

http://www.consolut.net - http://www.4soi.de - http://www.easymarketplace.de

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Volker!

We also thought of same approach but as per our previous experiences just for a small transport it took around 5 hrs in remote transport and here in my case we got SR1 exports from SMP and included all the support packs in upgrade itself during development upgrade itself it took a bit more time as expected.

Now we are thinking of removing symbolic link and creating a physical folder on production machine itself.

Is this approach OK, would you suggest this?

Thanks & Regards,

Shafi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

>Now we are thinking of removing symbolic link and creating a physical folder on production machine itself.

that will be great idea. i suggest you go ahead.

cheers,

-Sunil

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Sunil!

Hope this will work and upgrade goes smoothly..

Thanks & Regards,

Shafi