Migration Process

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These are the steps you must take to migrate servers, databases, and clients. Each is discussed in detail in later sections:

Server and Database Migration

1. Backup all databases to be migrated.
2. Install the latest InterBase server.
3. Restore databases to be migrated using the most recent gbak; at this point, you have dialect 1 databases.
4. Validate migrated databases.
5. Migrate databases to SQL dialect 3 (Migrating Databases to Dialect 3).

Client Migration

1. Identify the clients that must be upgraded.
2. Identify areas in your application which may need upgrading.
3. Install the InterBase client to each machine that requires it.
4. Upgrade SQL applications to SQL dialect 3.