From: Stan 
Subject: Re: Migrating Hard drives from one server to another?
Date: 1998/10/01
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Copying the data *is* the easiest thing to do. Keep in mind that you will lose
trustee assignments. Use TCOPY utilities (freeware awailable from Novell) to
copy trustee assignments. I tried it, it works. Also, you may want to use NCOPY
rather than anything else because it will preserve all NetWare file attributes.

-Stan

Felix Normand wrote:

> 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.