[ipac] rebuild HIP 3.x on Linux
Schneider, Wayne
wschneider at hclib.org
Tue Nov 14 18:24:20 EST 2006
I don't believe you can have two index servers running, because both
will be trying to update the word_index_pending table. Also, I think
HIP picks up what to use for its keyword searching from the word_index
table (in Horizon). The way we have multiple HIPs is to have a single
search and index server.
However, I would think you could turn off the dynamic indexer on your
old server (leaving the search server running), and run the mass indexer
on your new server, then start up the search server on your new server,
update word_index, and restart Jboss on the new server (forcing it to
get the new setting).
People who actually know things (as opposed to "believing" and
"thinking") are welcome to correct me :-).
wayne
-----Original Message-----
From: ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org [mailto:ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org]
On Behalf Of Natasha Stephan
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:10 PM
To: Dynix's Horizon Information Portal,formerly iPac (discussion);
eileenk at oplib.org; Dynix's Horizon Information Portal,formerly iPac
(discussion)
Subject: RE: [ipac] rebuild HIP 3.x on Linux
Hi again all,
Okay, so I ran gbak (on the Linux server) against a copy of our
transportable backup (from the Solaris server). And after much
mucking about with permissions (SirsiDynix helped a little bit with
that), it WORKED!
I've replaced any XSL files I edited, and put our logos in
images. Everything looks FINE, nothing seems to be missing (yet).
All that I have yet to do is recreate the indexes. Do you all think
it will be a problem to run the indexer against our Horizon database
when the dynamic indexer on the other HIP is also running against the
Horizon database? Some of you have multiple HIPs, right? So there
are multiple indexers running against your Horizon database?
I'll have more questions for y'all after a bit. Seems that you all
are more optimistic than SirsiDynix on these sorts of things...
Thanks,
Natasha
At 11:02 AM 11/13/2006, Natasha Stephan wrote:
>Thanks, Eileen! And thanks to Casey and Wayne for their suggestions.
>
>I'm working with our tech at SirsiDynix (the one who was on-site)
>today. I mentioned that I'd like to try recreating HIP on the new
>Linux box from a transportable backup of the database on the Sun
>box. He said the PAC team tried that, but found that a few things
>were missing when you restart HIP (?).
>
>I really have little to lose, as HIP is still up and running on our
>old server. Even if some stuff is missing, it is better than
>starting from scratch, right? Provided the changes I make
>afterwards actually stick...
>
>So I'm going to try it. I'll let y'all know how it goes!
>Thanks,
>Natasha
>
>At 09:10 AM 11/13/2006, you wrote:
>
>>Just so the list knows, I've asked SirsiDynix to respond to this
issue.
>>
>>Eileen R. Kontrovitz,
>>CODI President
>>
>>
>>
>> Eileen R. Kontrovitz, M.L.S
>> Head Of Automation
>>
>>Ouachita Parish Public Library Email:
eileenk at oplib.org
>>1800 Stubbs Avenue Phone:
>>318-327-1490 ex.3004
>>Monroe, LA 71201 FAX:
318-327-1499
>>
>> It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma
to burn
>>off!
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org
[mailto:ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org]On
>>Behalf Of Natasha Stephan
>>Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 4:09 PM
>>To: Dynix's Horizon Information Portal,formerly iPac (discussion)
>>Subject: Re: [ipac] rebuild HIP 3.x on Linux
>>
>>Hi Lynn,
>>Thanks for this info. I've found that gbak (used in rebuild) is in
>>/opt/firebird/bin rather than /usr/interbase/bin, so I made that
>>change in my rebuild.sh.
>>If I get the ipacadmin.gdb transferred over (per Casey's
>>instructions), I'll be running rebuild this weekend. Keeping my
>>fingers crossed...
>>Natasha
>>
>>At 01:42 PM 11/10/2006, you wrote:
>>
>> >Hi Natasha,
>> >
>> >Firstly, my sympathies to you on your pain. Secondly, we are on 3.08
>> >(Solaris) and our copy of rebuild.sh is in the
>> >/opt/dynix/appserver/jboss/server/default/data/rebuild/ folder.
>> >Rebuild.sh runs once a month on the first of the month and to the
>> >best of my knowledge it was created by SirsiDynix.
>> >
>> >Good luck,
>> >
>> >Lynn
>> >
>> >Natasha Stephan wrote:
>> >>Hi all,
>> >>We are in the process of migrating HIP 3.08 from a Solaris 8 box to
>> >>a RH Linux box.
>> >>
>> >><gripe>
>> >>Actually, I should say we are recreating our HIP _from scratch_ on
>> >>a new Linux box. Not "just for kicks" (even I am not that
>> >>masochistic). No, we are recreating HIP from scratch because we
_have_
>>to!
>> >>SirsiDynix came out last Thursday (Nov. 2) to do the migration of
>> >>both our servers (HIP and db) to brand-new Linux boxes. These are
>> >>servers that we had SD spec out for us more than a year
>> >>ago. Servers whose specs changed when the recommendations for
>> >>Horizon 8 came out.
>> >>Servers that were supposed to be able to run HIP and
>> >>Horizon. Servers that were purchased and staged in October of this
year.
>> >>The SD tech and I tried three times to FTP our ipacadmin.gdb to the
>> >>Linux box and start HIP. When he finally called Provo for some
>> >>help, he was told that it is not possible to migrate ipacadmin.gdb
>> >>from Solaris to Linux. Why no one knew this (or told us this) when
>> >>our salesperson and I planned our migration, I have no idea. What
>> >>is even more amazing is that no one knew this (or told us this)
>> >>when they sent the tech out to do our on-site install! Either no
>> >>one had tried this kind of migration before they promised to do
>> >>ours (which demonstrates a severe lack of planning) or no one
>> >>bothered to share this information with the people who were
>> >>planning to do ours (which demonstrates a severe lack of
communication).
>> >></gripe>
>> >>
>> >>Anyway, I am now setting up cron jobs on the new Linux box. I used
>> >>to run "rebuild.sh" against the admin database every weekend, while
>> >>the Horizon database was unavailable (in single-user mode for
>> >>DBCC). The file lived in
>> >>/opt/dynix/appserver/jboss/server/default/data on our Solaris 8
>> >>box. There is no such file in
>> >>/opt/dynix/appserver/jboss/server/default/data on our new Linux
box.
>> >>I can't find it anywhere.
>> >>
>> >>Do those of you with Horizon 3.x ever run rebuild.sh? If so, did
>> >>SirsiDynix create the file for you, or did you create it? And if
>> >>you are running Linux on your HIP server, could you share the text
>> >>of your rebuild.sh?
>> >>Thanks,
>> >>Natasha
>> >>
>> >>---
>> >>Natasha Stephan
>> >>LEONARDO Project Leader
>> >>http://leonardo.lindahall.org
>> >>816-926-8750/1-800-662-1545 x750
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>> >ILS Librarian
>> >Regina Public Library
>> >lreynish at reginalibrary.ca
>> >
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