Good day ya’ll…
Wonder if I could get some input here…
I have been following the upgrade guide by Wrox called “Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration” to perform an upgrade of our internal SharePoint server (2010). It is using SQL Server 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010.
I have additional clients that I will be upgrading next.
My problem is that RBS is enabled and the book doesn’t seem to cover this step. It simply recommends that I do a SQL Server backup and then a restore and attach the restored database to my web application (NTLM security mode) and then upgrade to claims mode.
How would I handle this with RBS enabled? Should I setup RBS on the new environment first (SQL Server 2012 R2 and SharePoint 2013) and then do a ???
Puzzled.
Also had a horrible time trying to get RBS running on the new environment previously and ended up doing a reset. The content db is about 6 gb with about 20 gb in files in the current RBS storage location.
Hi Richard, Thanks for more details.
Rite now, I have not done test run. Currently in Design & Planning stage. I will definitely share my experience when I will get some tangible result.
My databases were more in the range of 20gb.
You might want to consider doing a “Move_SPSite” first and see if that works…
The problem is, the site will be unavailable during the move and 1 terabyte could take a long time to accomplish.
Please note that you are backing up the site collection, so if you have multiple site collections, you could do this in separate runs.
Alternatively, you could contact Microsoft and see what the problem is and why you can’t seem to turn off RBS or at least make the SP2013 migration work without this painful step.
Remember, the only reason we are doing this is because the SP2010 database will not mount in an SP2013 farm until it tests with no RBS. I was unable to get this to happen.
Have you completed a test migration yet? I would recommend you do a test run by restoring a backup of the existing SP2010 database to a test environment (or, the new target environment) and try to mount it.
Got it. Many Thanks.
One more point in my case, I have 1 TB of data. Will this impact?
Ahmed…
See step number 1… That is where you need to start.
You need to backup the SP2010 site and then restore it to a new SP2010 database.
Once you have backed up and restored the sites to a new non-RBS content database, you can then mount and upgrade that database to SharePoint 2013.
So, the steps above only handle getting rid of the RBS artifacts in the SharePoint 2010 content database before the migration. We do this here by migrating the sites out of the database with RBS artifacts, into a new database without RBS artifacts.
Hope this helps!
Hi Richard,
I have similar case and I need to migrate complete SharePoint 2010 farm (having 5 web applications) to new SharePoint 2013 farm. In Current environment of SharePoint 2010, RBS is being implemented and total of 2 TB is there in BLOB storage.
I am not getting from above post, how to proceed. What will be startups to go? Are you suggesting to take site backup and restore again on same 2010 farm? then you are performing SP 2010 – SP 2013 migration? Please clarify
