Moving data from one server to another

Dave Peter csps6789 at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 1 15:07:10 EST 2006


Are these Raid? or just single disk?
If only single, try to use Symantec ghost and should
work. Otherwise, if you have veritas backup, use the
backup and restore. Backup your old one and restore to
the new one.

--
Dave

--- David Hardy <belovedbold357 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings, all;
> 
> We have an older (and ailing) Dell PowerEdge 6300
> running RH 9.0 and
> overloaded with a ton of (no-longer-sold and barely
> supported) Telemation
> phone system software.  This machine is currently
> part of our network.
> 
> We just bought a new Dell PowerEdge 860 and it came
> installed with RHEL 4.0.
> This box connects to the internet dynamically and
> they would like us to
> migrate the whole can of worms from the old box to
> the new one and then fix
> stuff, if necessary, afterward.  It has been
> explained at least a dozen
> times to them that the process is not as simple as
> what they call "copying"
> or "mapping" directories to the new machine;  there
> are site-specific
> scripts and files all over the old box written by
> several people over the
> years who have since left and never documented
> anything that they did (never
> enforced by same management that is on us like white
> on rice now to get this
> thing done.)
> 
> I was wondering if anyone else here has faced this
> sort of situation before
> and how they dealt with it.
> 
> Dave Hardy
> Old VMS guy
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