Preparing Your GroupWise System

To prepare your Novell^® GroupWise^® system to be updated to version 6.5, complete the following tasks:

• Validate your domain and post office databases to make sure that there are no physical inconsistencies with the database. If problems exist, you should recover or rebuild the database. For information about validating, recovering, or rebuilding a database, see the GroupWise documentation for your GroupWise version at the Novell Documentation Web site.
• Back up the domain or post office immediately before updating it. GroupWise provides a backup utility, gwbackup.exe, that you can use to back up and restore your databases. For information about using the backup utility, see the GroupWise documentation for your GroupWise version at the Novell Documentation Web site.