AS you will see in this note I am not familiar with UNIX.. BUt this is my question or problem as you want o see it.
I have a UNIX server with SCO 5.0.5 on a COMPAQ ML350 Pentium III is been running for almost 5 yrs with out a problem. Bust as times goes by. the owner of the company is getting worry that something is going to happen. there is an Accounting software running in this server. I run a backup from a windows 2000 server. I am guessing I am capturing only the data and nothing else.
I got another hard drive and I would like to ghost the drive. Been familiar with windows and not with UNIX i am afraid to even tough this machine. IS there any procedure that can I look at to see if I can even try??? can someone point me to???
Depends on a lot of things.
If the HD is IDE then Norton Ghost will duplicate it. You can install the replacement drive in the SCO system as a slave on the primary, or as the master on the secondary IDE controller, boot from a DOS/WIN95/WIN98 floppy, and run Norton Ghost to duplicate the drive.
Presumably the system has a CD which you could replace with a DVD Writer and install Microlite Edge (Home of Microlite BackupEDGE / RecoverEDGE).
This software will create a backup of the entire HD that can be restored to any system with a similar disk controller.
You will need to upgrade to 5.0.6 with all patches installed to upgrade the cpu to a P4
jgt,
I am sorry for the poor explanation of my problem here.!
this server has a dual channel Wide Ultra3 SCSI controller. right now there is only one Fujitsu Ultra 160 SCSI/68 pin driver 9Gb. I bought a new one thinking that I could insert it and do a ghost. BUt it seems like that doesn't work very well I haven't try it yet I just read some on the internet.
I do have a a backup tape on this machine backupedge edgemenu version 01.00.02 I did a full back up. Now I am not sure what to do next I am afraid to put the disk in LOL.. I know you all are laughing.
I just can have this server down. I want to make a copy of the HD buy anothe server just like it to have it as a backup incase something happen to this one.
If you have not already done so, create the Backup Edge boot diskettes.
Then remove the system drive, and install the new blank drive with the same SCSI ID and termination settings.
Boot from the diskettes that you have made, follow the instructions on configuring a new hard drive, and restore the data from the tape.
All told it should take about 2 hours.
And your original hard drive is still safe (or as safe as it can be.)
Liangxy,
I have nver tried your solution, so...
When using dd, does the target drive have to be identical to source drive?
Do you have to specify /dev/hd0a and /dev/hd1a in order to copy the boot sector?
"if=/dev/hdxx" is the source disk, "of=/dev/hdxx" is the target disk.
dd copy all data of the source disk to the target disk, include boot sector, same as GHOST.