Lots of responses. Several excellent and detailed. It will take a little time to digest and summarize, then I will send it back to the list. Some time next week when I have to have it to my administration. Interesting that I sent a variant of this message to an NT managers list and got no replies even after a couple of days. The sunmanagers had concrete answers for NT as well as for Sun. Thank you, --------------- Chris Hoogendyk -- O__ ---- Network Specialist & Unix Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Library Information Systems & Technology Services (*) \(*) -- W.E.B. Du Bois Library ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <choogend@library.umass.edu> --------------- Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > This is a combination post-mortem and planning for the next time. > > Suppose you had a Server that had a catastrophic failure due to a > disk controller failure or massive virus attack or something else, and > you had to put in a new drive or completely reformat the drive, recover > the system in it's entirety and have all the services working and all > clients on the network happily recognizing it as their server. > > You need to do this quickly, relatively easily, and without > re-installing all the software from scratch. > > Have any of you done this? > > What backup software were you using? > > Did the backup software perform up to your expectations? > > Extra credit ;,) if you can answer also for NT servers: Did you have any > network problems afterwards with server identity, sids, or anything else > NT techy related? > > Are any of you using really high end expensive enterprise type software > for these purposes? Or (for NT) do you get along with the standard major > PC software vendors? Or (for Solaris) do you get along with amanda? > > --------------- > > Chris Hoogendyk > > -- > O__ ---- Network Specialist & Unix Systems Administrator > c/ /'_ --- Library Information Systems & Technology Services > (*) \(*) -- W.E.B. Du Bois Library > ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst > > <choogend@library.umass.edu> > > --------------- > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers* _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Dec 14 09:00:15 2001
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