Re: Transferring SCO Drive to Another Server
From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.com)
Date: 04/14/05
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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:05:10 GMT
In article <Aib7e.1741$Tl2.747@fe10.lga>,
Jeremy Eder <jeder@hitekdata.com> wrote:
>J P wrote:
>> "Jeremy Eder" <jeder@hitekdata.com> wrote in message
>> news:%ka7e.1730$oL1.434@fe10.lga...
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>Thank you so much for taking the time to read this post, and for any
>>>help you may be able to offer.
>>>
>>>Sincerely,
>>>
>>>Jeremy Eder.
>>
>>
>> I can't figure out if the machine is dead (OS is toast) or if it's still
>> alive, but not all the parts are working (TCP/IP as well as access to the
>> tape drive is not functional). A little clarification would be the first
>> order of precedence. Does the machine boot? Can you login, see files, and
>> do normal things from the console? Or does it absolutely refuse to boot, or
>> maybe give some error messages when you try to boot?
>>
>> Address the failed OS first, then jump into the hardcore re-configuration
>> topics.
>>
>> JP
>OS if "functioning" to the point where it will boot with
>unix.install kernel. However any relink's cause a lot of errors.
>I can read all the data perfectly, which is the only good news of
>the day. The goal is to somehow get this data off the drive (as
>i stated, since the kernel is not relinkable i cannot configure
>tape/tcpip).
Well if worst comes to worst you could always configure a serial
transfer. It will be slow but you will get the data off the
system. That way you don't have to worry about building a kernel
with NIC paramaters configured into it.
Bill
-- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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