How to go from PBS Pro to PBS Community

Please note: If you do not want the job history and job id sequence , then your migration would be quite straight forward with pbs_diag ( source /etc/pbs.conf ; $PBS_EXEC/unsupported/pbs_diag -f ) output which is tar.gz file saved in the /root folder.

[ You can back up the old $PBS_HOME for your reference ]

  • uninstall Pro version
  • install OSS version
  • migrate the configuration from pbs_diag output
  • job id’s will start from 0

You can do this but to maintain your job history and job sequence and configuration, you would still need to take

  1. backup of $PBS_HOME after upgrading to 19.x and pbs_diag
  2. take a pgdump of its datastore
  3. uninstall commercial
  4. install OSS
  5. import the data dump
  6. take it from there