Before an upgrade, prepare your environment for the backup and import of data.
During the upgrade, the PlateSpin Migrate installation program transparently exports data from your existing database and re-imports it into a new database instance as required. However, as an additional measure of precaution, consider backing up your data prior to the upgrade.
On your server host, stop MS SQL services:
On the Start menu, click Run, type services.msc, then click OK.
In the Services window, right-click the SQL Server items, then select Stop.
Copy all *.mdf and *.ldf files to a location outside the product installation directory. The default location of these files is:
\Program Files\PlateSpin Migrate Server\Database
Restart MS SQL services that you stopped in Step 1.
Proceed with the upgrade, as detailed in Upgrading Migrate.
During the upgrade, the PlateSpin Migrate installation program will overwrite custom Linux blkwatch drivers that you previously added to PlateSpin Migrate. Consider saving a copy of your custom Linux blkwatch drivers prior to the upgrade.
Log in to the PlateSpin Migrate Server host machine as the Administrator user.
Navigate to the PlateSpin application's installation directory, such as C:\Program Files\PlateSpin Migrate Server\.
Open the .\Packages\9D470BFF-E30F-4015-83D8-4D308A8C8B1B\ folder and copy the 1.package file out of this folder to a temporary directory.
Rename 1.package with the .zip file extension (1.zip), then extract the contents of the file to this temporary directory.
Save your CustomKernel* content to another temporary location.
Proceed with the upgrade, as detailed in Upgrading Migrate.
After the upgrade, you should upload again any custom Linux blkwatch drivers you need for future migrations. See KB Article 7005873.