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| Xue |
 Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 12:48 pm Post subject: Can I copy a queue manager and all the queues? |
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Hi,
We need to migrate workflow and intall everything to a more powerful server. We are using windows 2000.
We want to copy workflow queue manager and it's queues (and messages) over since we have a lot of processes running.
1. if this is possible? (if using different server names)
2. if it is possible, I know there is a utility ms03 can get all the objects about queue manager. What about queue contents?
Thanks in advance.
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| jc_squire |
| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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Yes it is possible - you will have to maually create a new queue manager on the new server with the same name. Use the saveqmgr supportpac to recreate all the objects. Regarding messages - have you tried to manually move these from the queue directory on the old server to the respective queue directory on the new server?
If that does not work take a look at the rfhutil supportpac which you could use to trasnfer the messages which could be very time consuming if you have a large number of them.
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| bduncan |
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Yeah, believe it or not, but copying the "q" files (which represent the messages in each queue on the filesystem) actually works, provided the other queue manager has a similiarly named queue defined.
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| Xue |
| Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2003 11:12 am Post subject: |
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Thank you all for the replies. One more question: do I need to copy log files? And does the server name matter?
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| MichaelR |
| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 5:53 am Post subject: Copying MQM |
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Xue,
If you have a "detailed" OAM structure you might also consider using the AMQOAMD program to capture the MQ permissions of your source machine.
Good luck!!
MichaelR
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| bduncan |
| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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Xue,
You don't need to copy the log files (in fact this would probably not work correctly). And the queue manager name shouldn't matter.
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| leongor |
| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 12:34 am Post subject: |
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I don't think you can migrate that way Workflow queue manager.
Even if you delete some Workflow queue and recreate it manually it already won't be recognized.
My advice - use Saveqmgr support pack for saving all application queues on this queue manager
and all internal queues Workflow will create automatically when creating new environment.
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| Xue |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:40 am Post subject: |
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Leonid,
You are right. It's failed when I tried to delete and recreate the workflow queues. As you suggested, we can have all the queues created on new server, but what about queue contents (current running processes on old server), how can we copy them? I tried not to recreate queues, just copy q files. Then when I run the workflow, click on a workitem, I got "Object is not exist".
Thanks
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| leongor |
| Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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It depends if you're using linear or circular logs.
If you want to copy all the messages too - you need to use linear log.
Just create new qmgr with all queues and copy the logs from the old one.
I didn't try this on WF qmgr, but I think it should work.
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