Architecture for failure

[temployee]

Here's an experience You won't want to repeat;

We have been dutifully backing up our data on an internal drive using ArcServe IT. ArcServe IT runs inside a Novell client only.

Monday morning we discovered the server motherboard was dead.
Actually a capacitor had delaminated forcefully into a fuzzy ball of tinsel. The motherboard MFR and the BIOS/chipset MFR etc. etc are out of business. The internal tape drive is SCSI. And, no Novell means no ArcServe.

So my data is safe, very safe, actually impossible to access.

 

[vschumpy]

But you have the NetWare server CD right? Build your new server with the same name, re-install arcserve (or the client agent - I can't work out whether which you are using), merge the tape you want to restore, and restore your data back.

This sort of thing happens a lot more frequently than you'd think.

If you need help doing this give us some more details to work with like NetWare version, ARCserve version and whether you're backing up locally using ARCserve for NetWare, or remotely to a Windows version of ARCserve.

 

[impster]

I have a similar situation, I have an old tape and need a few files from it. It was netware4.x and arcserve6.x

 

[Cyklops]

You need to reinstall ARCserve for NetWare to be able to restore data. ARCserve for Windows can read the tape header and see the files but it cannot restore valid data.

regards

 

[impster]

My problem is the install on netware. I'm trying to install arcserve 7 on netware 5, but i cant get arcserve to start. I keep getting canwpabd errors. I would appritiate any help.