replace HD ?

[hellbeach]

Hello everyone
I´m going to replace a harddriver in a nw5 server and just want to check something with you guys first:

The server is running a single HD of 6 GB. I was thinking about putting in an 80 GB HD and mirror the old disc to this new one and then replace the old with the new, that will work right ?
Which leads me up to my question: When I got the new disc in and running it will be partitioned like the old one so I will only be using 6 GB of it. Is it possible to then increase the size of one volume so I will use the full 80 GB, without destroying all the data on the disc ?

 

[terry712]

if you mirror it in this way
you will need end up with a 6gb netware partition
the rest will be free space - or you may need to make the hotfix 74gb
increasing size of volume isnt a prob but you will end up with more than one netware partition unless you are going to use nss - which on 5 i was never a big fan of

personaly i think i would back it up and use

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10027322.htm

or i think it st. bernard or something like that does good software for this kind of thing - although never used it - always seems to get good reviews

server magic does it as well - used this and it's ok
abends a bit but works

 

[Lou0686]

Hi,

Here is one vote for ServerMagic.

Once you have your data mirrored over and your mirror broken, you can use ServerMagic to extend the size of the partition to the full lenght of the disk.

Lou

 

[hellbeach]

If I mirror the disk, break the mirror, replace the old disk with the new one and then use server magic to extend the partition to the full length as Lou0686 suggested, will I be able to have that as a NW partition or do I have to use NSS ? (what is the max size for a NW partition)

/Dan

 

[Lou0686]

Hi,

One thing ServerMagic does not support is NSS so it would be a Traditional partition and would be the whole lenght of the drive.

Lou

 

[hellbeach]

What alternatives are there to Server Magic ?

/Dan

 

[terry712]

http://www.portlocksoftware.com/

or failing that it's a backup , dsmaint and then restore