Re: Transferring SCO Drive to Another Server

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Date: 13 Apr 2005 12:02:32 -0400

Jeremy Eder typed (on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:50:35AM -0400):
| Hello SCO Friends;
|
| I've got what has turned out to be a serious situation.
|
| On a programmers workstation, he was backing up /u every night.
| /u2 was a different physical disk and was not being backed up.
| The drive and data is in perfect condition.

Backed up using what program, and to what medium? And why can't you
just restore from the backup medium to some different machine?

| I need to mount it in another server. I have SCO, Redhat EL, Windows,
| servers as options. I'll install any OS you can suggest in order to get
| at this data. The problem is that the OS on his workstation is
| toast...TCP/IP as well as access to the tape drive is not functional,
| removing my usual options of recovery/data transfer.
|
| My idea is to mount this drive in another SCO box, as that seems as the
| easiest option. I'm very reluctant to continue without experienced
| advice, due to the sensitivity of the information on the drive: 4gb of
| source code.
|
| The drive is U160 SCSI on a dptr-based scsi controller. The target
| servers have no SCSI cards yet, so I would have to install that
| controller first. Please, if you can, detail the installation of that
| as well, as I've done it before but as you can tell I want to be
| extremely careful with my operations, as if this is lost, I believe so
| might be my job. :)
|
| Please advise the proper sequence of mkdev's/mounts - or whatever might
| be necessary to get this controller and drive mounted in another server
| so that i can get at this data.
|
| I've researched on google and found applicable articles on aplawrence,
| but they havent been updated in 2-3 years. They may still work, however
| I wanted to consult with this newsgroup before continuing.

Well, the machine has no doubt been in use for several years, so why
wouldn't three-year old advice be valid today?

-- 
JP

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