[ Meat n' Potatoes of this Article ]

1. Apply patches from Novell to the Reload Server

[ The Problem ]

Recently a customer in Chile was implementing Reload, the GroupWise Backup Solution. They were putting Reload through the paces backing up a GroupWise post office on NetWare, and then migrating it to a Linux server. The migration was taking way too long, several hours, and it was only a 60 gigabyte post office.

[ The Solution ]

Then the customer used "rug" (the command-line interface to ZENWorks Linux Management) to upgrade both of the OES servers (the Reload server and the destination Linux server) to the latest support pack and that was the trick. Things really took off then. Reload migrated the GroupWise post office from the Reload server to the Linux server in 2 hours. Pretty slick!

FYI, on SLES10 servers the utility for upgrading is called "YOU" which stands for Yast Online Update.

Enjoy Reload
-Tay