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.
Just a final note on this…
I did manage to get the blobs pulled back into the database and disabled RBS. But, when I attempted to migrate the content dbs in SharePoint 2013, it still detected traces of RBS.
I ended up backing up the site collections in SharePoint 2010 and restoring those sites to a new, fresh content database. Then, I migrated the clean content dbs to my new SharePoint 2013 server and, the content dbs successfully tested and attached to my new web app.
If you have questions about the process, I took very detailed notes…
