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Copying Ancestor Repositories

This task is a step in Process of Meeting the Requirements for an Incremental Upgrade of Siebel Innovation Pack 2013, Using the Incremental Repository Merge. The ancestor repository is the Siebel repository that was shipped with the Siebel CRM release you are upgrading from. It contains none of your customizations. For upgrades to Siebel CRM version 8.1.1.11 using incremental repository merge, if your repository version is anything other than version 8.1.1.10, then the ancestor repository will be Siebel version 8.1.1. Siebel CRM version 8.2.2.4 using incremental repository merge, if your repository version is anything other than version 8.2.2.3 then the ancestor repository will be Siebel version 8.2.2

Use this task to copy ancestor repositories before beginning your upgrade. Copy Ancestor Repository files from My Oracle Support. It is recommended that you copy these ancestor repositories from the Ancestor Repository media before beginning your upgrade.

NOTE:  With the inclusion of two new .dat files, the zip file described in this task might exceed 2 gigabytes (GB). This size might exceed the limitations of older compress utilities whose limit is 2 GB.

To copy the ancestor repositories

1. On My Oracle Support, locate 16701907 (Patch ID).
2. Download, then extract the included file to its own unique folder.

   NOTE:  You must keep these files in a separate directory from other downloaded JAR files.

3. From the newly created directory where the ancestor repository media files are located, run the following script to make a copy of the ancestor repositories to your Siebel root directory:
   • Windows: copydat.bat (copydat.bat SiebelRoot optional log file )

     For example, if your database server installation location is c:\siebel\8.2.2.08.1.1.8\ses\dbsrvr, then you run the following:

   copydat.bat c:\siebel\8.2.2.08.1.1.8\ses d:\temp\out.log

   • UNIX: copydat.sh (sh copydat.sh SiebelRoot optional log file)

     For example, if your database server installation location is /export/home/qa1/22313/ses/dbsrvr, then you run the following:

   sh copydat.sh /export/home/qa1/22313/ses /tmp/out.log

   NOTE:  If a log file location is not specified, then a log file will be generated in the directory that you are running the script from or, if that directory is not writable, under your temp directory.

   The script copies the ancestor repositories p753.dat, r77.dat, r80.dat, r811.dat, r782.dat, r82.dat, r821.dat, r81110.dat, r822.dat and r8223.dat to Siebel Root/dbsrvr/common/SIA and copies hor782.dat, hor80.dat, and hor811.dat to Siebel Root/dbsrvr/common/HOR. After the script has been successfully run, the Checksum verification is run on the copied files against the checksum values shipped in the manifest file.