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Migrating to Lotus Connections 2.5

Migrate from a production installation of Lotus Connections 2.0.1 to release 2.5.

Choose a migration strategy that suits your needs. For more information, see the Migration strategies topic.

Ensure that your environment meets the hardware and software requirements for Lotus Connections 2.5. For more information, see the Lotus Connections 2.5 system requirements topic.

There are several procedures required to migrate your Lotus Connections deployment. Your migration strategy determines which procedures you need to follow. Whatever strategy you decide to follow, you need to complete the steps described in this task.

To migrate your Lotus Connections release 2.0.1 deployment to release 2.5...

1. Prepare to stop Lotus Connections 2.0.1. For more information, see the Preparing Lotus Connections for maintenance topic.

2. Back up your current deployment. For more information, see the Backing up Lotus Connections topic.

3. Update your databases to release 2.5. For more information, see the Updating databases topic.

4. Migrate Lotus Connections 2.0.1 to release 2.5. For more information, see the Migrating a stand-alone deployment topic or the Migrating a network deployment topic, depending on your deployment type.

5. Perform any applicable post-migration tasks. For more information, see the Post-migration tasks topic.

• Migration strategies
  You can migrate from a production installation of Lotus Connections 2.0.1, from the pilot installation of Lotus Connections 2.5, or from one type of data source to another.

• Migrating Lotus Connections features
  Migrate Lotus Connections features from release 2.0.1 to release 2.5.

• Saving your customizations
  Before updating or migrating, back up or make notes of your customizations.

• Updating databases
  Update Lotus Connections 2.0.1 databases within an existing database environment.

• Migrating a pilot to a production deployment
  A pilot deployment is ideal for evaluating Lotus Connections. After evaluation is complete, you can migrate the pilot deployment to a production deployment.

• Post-migration tasks
  After migration, you need to perform further tasks to ensure that your new deployment is complete.

• Rolling back a migration or update
  If an update fails, you can roll back your environment to the previous one.

Updating and migrating

Updating Lotus Connections 2.5

Uninstall updates

 

Related tasks

Prepare Lotus Connections for maintenance

Backing up Lotus Connections

Migrating Lotus Connections features

 

Related reference

Lotus Connections detailed system requirements

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