From: "Michael Harvey" 
Subject: Re: Migrating Hard drives from one server to another?
Date: 1998/09/27
Message-ID: #1/1
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Organization: CADVision Development Corporation (http://www.cadvision.com/)
Newsgroups: fido.novell

Try inserting the drive into the new server, loading install.nlm and select
the configure volumes options, it should show you the added volume as
unmounted, try mounting it.  I've never tried this but this is the approach
I would take.  Or you could just type "mount all" at the system console and
see if it picks it up.  If the drive is formatted as a NW 4.1  volume
already, it should pick it up.

The closest I've come to trying this was when my sys volume hdd failed.
After rebuilding the sys volume (backups had failed) I just mounted the
existing data volume.

Let me know if it works

M. Harvey
"An Idle Mind Is The Devil's Monkeybars"
                                   -Sam's Grandmother, Sam&Max
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Felix Normand  wrote in message 360c7596.0@news1.ibm.net...
>Is it possible to take a hard drive with good data with a Novell partition
>(4.1) out of a dead server and place it into a new server without losing
>data?  If so what is the procedure?  The hard drive in question is not the
>boot partition, just a volume used as data storage.
>
>I am trying to manage a Novell 4.1 system with only on the job training.  I
>have had to learn from scratch.  Our primary server is giving us fits.  We
>have a second identical server that was purchased as a backup.  We have it
>set it up several times as practice and are ready to start using it so we
>can fix the problems on the bad one.
>
>The first time we tried to move the hard drive we lost the data. Luckily we
>had a good backup.  We are now having a little problem getting the backup
to
>work on the new server.  I believe it would be much easier to just copy
>files from different Netware volumes instead of using Tape backup to
>restore.
>
>