Is it possible to move our 10.0 caches to the new 10.1 services that we are going to have to recreate?
Parenthetically: It is extremely frustrating that ESRI has once again devised a new reason for us to completely uninstall one of its products in order to re-install its new product. For those of us who have small shops and a heavy reliance on ArcGIS Server, it is a huge burden to have to stand down our current architecture in order to stand up a new one. I hope some day ESRI can figure out how to do "Upgrades", rather than complete system overhauls.
So, is it possible to use our caches from 10 with the recreated services that we need to create for 10.1, or is that something we will need to recreate as well?
As outlined in the Help page you pasted, you don't have to regenerate the map cache - you'd only need to republish a service. I've had successfully moved multiple map service cache folders in 10.1, no problem at all. Just make sure the tiling schema in the Service Editor window matches the tiling schema of the map cache. Don't forget about making some backups first - don't store your cache just in one place when testing using the tiles with 10.1 - it's easy to miss some settings and then ArcGIS Server may recreate the tiling schema file which may result in corrupted cache, had it myself it several times on prerelease. 🙂
If having multiple services to migrate, consider automating the process by scripting with integrated means of ArcGIS Server.
As outlined in the Help page you pasted, you don't have to regenerate the map cache - you'd only need to republish a service. I've had successfully moved multiple map service cache folders in 10.1, no problem at all. Just make sure the tiling schema in the Service Editor window matches the tiling schema of the map cache. Don't forget about making some backups first - don't store your cache just in one place when testing using the tiles with 10.1 - it's easy to miss some settings and then ArcGIS Server may recreate the tiling schema file which may result in corrupted cache, had it myself it several times on prerelease. 🙂
If having multiple services to migrate, consider automating the process by scripting with integrated means of ArcGIS Server.
nice to know at least something can be directly migrated. we had such pains when trying to use locators that were created in 9.3 in 10, guess the assumptions were flying about the tiles.
