Is it ABSOLUTELY necessary to do a rebuild prior to upgrading?

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Urgent question - Upgrading.  Do I have to rebuild? It takes too long for us to be able to upgrade.  Going from 2012 SP13 to 2019 on a network install.

Going from 2012 SP13 to 2019

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    Follow the steps to upgrade, rushing will cost more time in the end if there are problems. The re-build is there to root out problems early. Have MULITPLE backups just in case. You will be doing a database upgrade per company with the upgrade.

    If a speed up is required, if you have multiple BW companies, choose to be in the smallest company ( based on hard drive size used), it will quicken up the initial install, and then you will be allowed to upgrade the remaining companies databases in batch.  This will give you time to start upgrading the clients while the databases are converted.

    When its time to replace the Server that BW is on, pay special attention to the CPU choice  and the per core speed  and hard drive/SSD sub-systems. I like the Intel 6 core+ processors and RAID 5 or 6 with 4 or more drives,  using  Solid state enterprise class drives. - Our rebuild times for 1 GB company is under 10 minutes for GL AP AR IC OE - the month end close is under 3 minutes with  3 years of data

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    Follow the steps to upgrade, rushing will cost more time in the end if there are problems. The re-build is there to root out problems early. Have MULITPLE backups just in case. You will be doing a database upgrade per company with the upgrade.

    If a speed up is required, if you have multiple BW companies, choose to be in the smallest company ( based on hard drive size used), it will quicken up the initial install, and then you will be allowed to upgrade the remaining companies databases in batch.  This will give you time to start upgrading the clients while the databases are converted.

    When its time to replace the Server that BW is on, pay special attention to the CPU choice  and the per core speed  and hard drive/SSD sub-systems. I like the Intel 6 core+ processors and RAID 5 or 6 with 4 or more drives,  using  Solid state enterprise class drives. - Our rebuild times for 1 GB company is under 10 minutes for GL AP AR IC OE - the month end close is under 3 minutes with  3 years of data

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