Preserve Site Modifications
Files distributed as part of Ingres that you have customized will be lost during the upgrade. Any custom files you have added to the $II_SYSTEM directory tree will remain.
You must copy your customized files to a safe place. Do not copy them to /tmp or anywhere in $II_SYSTEM/ingres directory.
If local collation sequence files have been customized, save the original collation definition files and the compiled files that reside in $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files/collation.
Commonly Customized Files
The following files are typically customized:
• Termcap files in $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files
• Keyboard map files in $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files
• Local collation sequence files
Preserve Necessary Files
If you cannot identify all your customized files, you can ensure that you preserve the necessary files by performing the following procedure. This procedure copies more files than necessary, but you can delete the copy after Ingres has been running live for a period.
To preserve necessary files
1. Delete all *.log files from $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files
2. Copy to a safe place the entire contents of the following directories:
• all .opt files
• $II_SYSTEM/ingres/bin
• $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files
• $II_SYSTEM/ingres/rep
• $II_SYSTEM_ingres/files/rep
• $II_SYSTEM/ingres/utility
Note: Do not delete the copy immediately when the upgrade completes, because you may discover weeks later that you need the old version of a file (for example, a Vision template or keyboard map) from the original $II_SYSTEM/ingres directory.
UNIX: On UNIX, to copy these files, use commands similar to the following:
cd $II_SYSTEM/ingres
tar cf - bin files rep utility | (cd /someplace/safe;tar xf -) 
Visual DBA Configurations
When upgrading, Visual DBA configuration files (.vdbacfg) are not upwardly compatible and must be recreated.
Note: Instead of using configuration files, you can use the vdba command with command line flags to start Visual DBA with, for example, certain windows open on given nodes. For details on the vdba command, see the Command Reference Guide.
Last modified date: 08/29/2024