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.
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.
