3.1 to 6.0 Upgrade Time Estimate?

[Chiramisu]

Approximately how long should I expect an upgrade from 3.1 to 6.0 to take? This is a total of 6 incremental upgrades as follows: 3.1 -> 3.5 -> 4.0 -> 4.1 -> 5.0 -> 5.1 -> 6.0.

Stats to consider:

• DB Size: ~26 GB
• Users: ~40
• Repositories: ~20
• Total Folders: ~100

Has anyone performed a similar upgrade and can give me an estimate of how long it took? I'd like to give our users a realistic expectation of downtime.

Thanks.

[lbauer]

We don't have a definitive answer. So much depends on the structure of your database, the speed of your hardware, etc. Assuming you're on Vault 3.1.9, the upgrade to Vault 4.0.6 may take some time -- maybe a few hours?? -- because we made changes that affected a lot of the data. Later upgrades will probably not take as long. Plan for a longer time -- but you might be done before that.

[Chiramisu]

Actually, I was quite worried that I was going to be stuck in the office all day Saturday performing the upgrade, but in my case the entire process only took about 2 hours and I didn't run into any issues fortunately. It was an immaculate install. The only hiccup I had was from 5.1 to 6.0 because I transitioned both the databases and the web server to different servers at that time because of the need for .NET 4.0.

Thanks Linda for all your wonderful help. I greatly appreciate your support over the phone and email during this process. It would not have been possible to have such a clean install without your help.

[lbauer]

Thanks for your kind words.

Let me know if we can be of assistance in the future.