Re: sbs 6.0 Main Scsi failing
Anders Gustafsson
> This customer has no real backup and one that drives
> gone....
>
SBackup is included. All you need is a tape drive.
- Anders Gustafsson (Sysop)
The Aaland Islands (N60 E20)
Novell has a new enhancement request system,
or what is now known as the requirement portal.
If customers would like to give input in the upcoming
releases of Novell products then they should go to
http://www.novell.com/rms
Anders Gustafsson
> Originally the person that sold them this system included a small tape
> backup and no 3rd party software, and told them they really didn't need
> a backup becasue they have mirroring. I did set SBackup up a while ago,
> but becasue of the tape size and the speed, it took hours and multiple
> tapes, they stopped that!
> Any other suggestions other than telling them too bad!
Sigh... I too have met salespeople that told people they did not need
backupps because they had RAID..
Anyway. Your first priority is to safeguard their data. The fact that they
are running on a non-mirrored drive with no backup and the remaining drive
is flakey means that they stand a fair chance to losing *all* data, any
second. I suggest you ask them what it would cost to rekey all that data?
Chances are it would cost a lot.
Then have them buy a decent tapedrive. An Ultrium 448 will backup their
entire server overnight and will give them years of troublefree service.
OK they cost over 1000 dollars, but they are worth every cent.
If that fails, try eBay or rent/steal/borrow a drive and get that backup
done. Then we can think of how to replace those drives.
Alternatively, install a cheap IDE drive into the server and use VCU to
copy data to that.
Anders Gustafsson
> So now I'm looking for the best possible way of doing this, knowing
> that I have a tape drive and can use sbackup or Backup Exec v9.2. I
> haven't done a lot of work on Novell in quite some time and before that
> I had never had to do a complete restore (speaks to the quality of the
> OS). Steps or a good document would be helpful.
>
Let's hope it will never come to that though, but make sure you do a
DSREPAIR -RC to create a DS dump file that Novell can restore. Anyway,
get a backup. If you can loan them a drive, then that is fine.
I guess those drives are all SCSI? It is the other 36Gb that is failing?
What about my idea of attaching another drive and using VCU to copy the
files?
Anders Gustafsson
http://www.novell.com/documentation/oes2/stor_nss_lx_nw/?page=/documentation/oes2/stor_nss_lx_nw/data/ah0lxa5.html
Naturally, you could use any copy utility. Ie TaskMaster sync command etc.
Anders Gustafsson
> It's probably late in the SBS cycle for this to help anyone else, but
> who knows!
>
Well, you recipe will remain here for eternity and might help someone
in the future!