Hard Drive Upgrade
Tom Luedtke
contains my sys, vol1, vol2, and vol3 from a 18 gb drive to a set of
mirrored 36 gb drives. I know that I can mirror after I get the drive copied
and setup the way I want. I was wondering if there was an easy way that
would allow me to change the volume sizes without having to reinstall or
restore anything. I am open to using software packages that would allow me
to do this. Has anyone used PowerQuest ServerMagic for Netware?
Thanks for any info.
tom
Barry Schnur
Manager product will be able to handle this for you.
In fact, you need to do something like this since if you mirror from an 18G
drive to a 36G drive in NetWare -- you lose the extra size between the
source 18G and the target drive and can't use it as the NetWare mirroring
takes place at the partition level.
The third party products will allow you to change the partition size
afterwards and for that matter, I think they might help in doing this 'on
the fly'.
The alternative, not using 3rd party software, isn't mirroring, rather it
is this relatively complicated multistep approach:
John Pence (a frequent contributor) put together this note which may be of
use here:
This process will let you swap the disk containing the sys volume with
another disk in the same server. Very useful for upgrading server hard
drives without using tape. (I've modified this to take into account the
likely need for the replacement drive to be a DOS boot drive with the OS)
Before starting if you have a Netware 4.x for Small Business version you
should get a copy of TID 10073371 and have on hand the referenced
Install.nlm. If you have NWSB 4.11 or IWSB 4.11 you should copy your
current install.nlm to Install.saf to prevent inability to reinstall
licenses that will occur with the full version's Install.nlm.
1) Install the new drive in the server.
2) Using FDISK, create a DOS partition -- say 100M.
3) Format the DOS partition with /S to include boot DOS files.
4) Copy all files from the 'to be replaced' DOS partition over to
the new drive with something like XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /S /E /V
5) Restart Netware (from the original C drive).
6) At the server prompt, load Install (and do not unload it until you
restart the server at step 15). Create a netware partition on the
new drive.
7) Create a "newsys" volume on the new drive.
NOTE: Remember to add long file name support on the new volume if you
had it on the original volume.
8) Copy data from sys to newsys -- note! Ncopy will not retain rights.
You will either need to use something like Arcserve's copy function,
or something like fstrust. (FSTrust can be found at www.dreamlan.com).
If rights are not an issue, then ncopy will work fine.
Also, Novell provides a downloadable utility for handling rights as
well -- TCOPY2.EXE (track it down at:
http://support.novell.com/servlet/tidfinder/2937758
Note, if you are using IWSB or NWSB versions of 4.11 or 4.2, then you will
find that you need to download a current Service Pack and use the
Install.nlm
from it instead of the install.nlm from IWSB or NWSB.
9) Use the "dsmaint" of install to backup NDS to newsys:system
10) Dismount sys
11) Dismount newsys
12) Rename sys to oldsys
13) Rename newsys to sys
14) Mount Sys
15) Use the "dsmaint' of install to restore NDS
16) Restart server
Note, to add the licenses back, if you are using IWSB or NWSB, you will
need to use the original install.nlm (in SYS:SYSTEM) to do this, as the
version of install.nlm from NW4SP9.EXE will not work.
17) Add license(s) back
--
Barry Schnur
Novell Support Connection Volunteer Sysop
Dave Lunn
completely forgot about that.
--
Dave Lunn
NSC SysOp
http://support-forums.novell.com
Barry Schnur
> completely forgot about that.
No problem
Tom
Manager? If so how well does it work for resizing volumes and how reliable
is it? I really don't want to have to install the server to be able to
change the sizes.
Thanks
tom
"Barry Schnur" <BSc...@cox.net> wrote in message
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Barry Schnur
very reliable from what I've seen (both hands on and reports here).