Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: SDL Studio GroupShare Installation Support
Poster: ATB Translation
Post title: Recommendations to Avoid Pitfalls of a SDL Studio Groupshare Server System
Dear Friends,
As promised in my previous post, I would like to share our experiences and humbly make some recommendations regarding the upgrade/installation of SDL Studio GroupShare product.
If you do a fresh install, you may or you may not have problems. However, since our problem was upgrading of the product I can only share our experiences regarding upgrading of the product.
Before upgrading, take backups not only of your data (in form of TMX or regular SQL database files) but also disk images of the partitions of your server box.
Since, as in our case, things may go south, you may recover your previous, working installation back, by recreating your partition back.
I used and recommend you an open source linux based LiveCD, called Clonezilla to take direct disk/partition images from the server box.
Since it's open source, no secret proprietary formats but good ol' plain hardisk image, compressed and split into 2GB files. Whenever you need, you may restore any partition even entire disks by yourselves.
Anyway since the system went bad after the failed installation, we performed a fresh Windows 2008 R2 install and started with re-installation of Groupshare 2011 system.
After taking this hard-learnt lesson, I immediately took an image of the main partition of the server box (a i7 based, 16 GB RAM Windows 2008 R2 server box), after the first successful re-installation of the previous Studio Groupshare 2011.
However, we only managed to work a few days and reattempted to install 2014, thanks to support by Bogdan we finally managed to install the system.
After successful install, I also took another image so even if we lose the system once more, we may revive it within half an hour.
Actually I would be very glad if SDL publish a much more extensive and detailed installation guide, other than the current one which outlines the install but does not provide much information.
I hope this helps our colleagues.
Best Wishes,
ATB
Topic: SDL Studio GroupShare Installation Support
Poster: ATB Translation
Post title: Recommendations to Avoid Pitfalls of a SDL Studio Groupshare Server System
Dear Friends,
As promised in my previous post, I would like to share our experiences and humbly make some recommendations regarding the upgrade/installation of SDL Studio GroupShare product.
If you do a fresh install, you may or you may not have problems. However, since our problem was upgrading of the product I can only share our experiences regarding upgrading of the product.
Before upgrading, take backups not only of your data (in form of TMX or regular SQL database files) but also disk images of the partitions of your server box.
Since, as in our case, things may go south, you may recover your previous, working installation back, by recreating your partition back.
I used and recommend you an open source linux based LiveCD, called Clonezilla to take direct disk/partition images from the server box.
Since it's open source, no secret proprietary formats but good ol' plain hardisk image, compressed and split into 2GB files. Whenever you need, you may restore any partition even entire disks by yourselves.
Anyway since the system went bad after the failed installation, we performed a fresh Windows 2008 R2 install and started with re-installation of Groupshare 2011 system.
After taking this hard-learnt lesson, I immediately took an image of the main partition of the server box (a i7 based, 16 GB RAM Windows 2008 R2 server box), after the first successful re-installation of the previous Studio Groupshare 2011.
However, we only managed to work a few days and reattempted to install 2014, thanks to support by Bogdan we finally managed to install the system.
After successful install, I also took another image so even if we lose the system once more, we may revive it within half an hour.
Actually I would be very glad if SDL publish a much more extensive and detailed installation guide, other than the current one which outlines the install but does not provide much information.
I hope this helps our colleagues.
Best Wishes,
ATB