Moving from XI R2 SP2 to XI 3.0 - clean install or upgrade?

[Former Member]

My company is currently using Business Objects Enterprise XI R2 SP2 and they want to move to XI R3.0. Is there any benefit to completely wiping the previous version and doing a clean install compared to trying to use the upgrade process?

I'm still fairly new to this product so I don't know whether we do anything considered out of the norm. I presume we can back up our files/settings from R2, and them re-import them into R3.

If anyone has any advice as to what is the better approach I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

[Former Member]

Would anyone happen to have a workplan for an upgrade from XI R2 to XI 3.x? What are the various steps involved, and especially a plan for upgrading Production, where you risk wiping out existing install and getting a corrupt new one. How can one cleanly upgrade Prod with the lowest risk?

Any thoughts or documentation (a worklist or plan, if at all) would be a great help!

[Former Member]

Take a backup of the CMS and Audit (if enabled) database along with the Filestore (Input/Output) before upgrading your production server.

This assures a very minimal risk of losing your data while upgrading.

And then you may choose to do a clean install or upgrade install.

-n2

[Former Member]

After much consideration I have to side with the Clean Install.

For preference a side by side install, use import wizard to migrate content, and after uninstalling XIr2 fix the XI 3.1 and Tomcat ports.

The simple upgrade is a great idea. I look forward to working with it again in a future release.

[Former Member]

I've just run a simple upgrade of XIr2 SP4 to XI3.1, all content and settings came across fine, except linked universes which had to be reimported from a BIAR.

[Former Member]

Also noticed that the scheduled instances did not get copied accross. We have an open issue with SAP

[BasicTek]

I originally thought this thread was for the opinion of which one was easier, now you know why most of us said clean install

-Tim

[Former Member]

Clean install....

[BasicTek]

I'll 2nd that, much cleaner with a new install.

-Tim

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am going to be running the upgrade on a demo install next week. It is a single box installation, so the upgrade should work. If it does not I will be falling back and creating a clean install, and upgrading the db. Finally if this is not successful I will be trying to use the import wizard.

I will update with the progress.

Regards

Alan

[denis_konovalov]

It's better to do a clean install and then migrate content from XIR2 to XI3.1 using Import Wizard or thru CMS DB copy and FRS copy and Update Objects.