1.6 Update Issues

1.6.1 Rolling Upgrades Are Not Supported in a Clustered Environment

Rolling upgrades (updating one Filr or search index server while another continues to serve clients) are not supported when updating from Filr 1.0 to Filr 1.0.1 in a clustered environment.

You must shut down all Filr and search index appliances before you begin the update process, then re-start the appliances after the update is complete.

This issue does not affect small or non-clustered large installations.

For information about how to update Filr, see Updating Filr in the Novell Filr 1.0.1 Installation and Configuration Guide.

1.6.2 Update Fails if You Do Not Reconfigure Filr before Updating

You must reconfigure the Filr appliance before updating to a future version. If you do not reconfigure the appliance before updating, the update fails.

For information about how to reconfigure the Filr appliance, see Changing Configuration Options for the Filr Appliance in the Novell Filr 1.0.1 Installation and Configuration Guide.

1.6.3 Filr Configuration Wizard Can Take Over an Hour to Update

After going through the update process and clicking Finish in the Filr Configuration Wizard, the wizard takes longer to complete the update process than the expected 5 minutes. Depending on the size of your database, the update process can take over an hour to complete. For example, a 14 GB database might take 30 minutes to complete, and a 30 GB database might take an hour or more.

If the database is 25 GB or larger, contact Novell Technical Support to assist you through the update process.

For information about how to update Filr, see Updating Filr in the Novell Filr 1.0.1 Installation and Configuration Guide.

1.6.4 Missing Files Due to an Accent Character Need to Be Re-Synchronized after Update

In the initial Filr release, Filr did not distinguish accent characters in file names. As a result, if one file was synchronized from the file system to a Net Folder, and then another file with the same name (except for the presence of an accent character) attempted to synchronize, the synchronization would fail.

Filr 1.0.1 contains a fix so that separate files or directories with names that are identical other than an accent character can be synchronized to Filr from the file system.

To enable these types of files to synchronize after updating to Filr 1.0.1, do one of the following: