Changing fileserver to new hardware with same hostname

[kdoe]

Hello,
we use networker server 7.3.2. WIN

the next weekend we are migrating our actual fileserver with hostname 'prod' to a new hardware. When finished the old server will be switched off and the new hardware will get the hostname 'prod'.
How should the the networker server be configured, that this is a new server with the same hostname, regarding not to loose the possibility for recovering the files (history) from the old hardware?

Sorry for my english, I'm german

 

[605]

This procedure should help:
- Install NW on the new host in the same directory
- Shutdown the NW services on both hosts
- On the NEW machine, delete these directories:
..\nsr\index
..\nsr\logs
..\nsr\mm
..\nsr\res
..\nsr\tmp
- From the old machine copy these directories
..\nsr\index
..\nsr\logs
..\nsr\mm
..\nsr\res
- Start the NW services on the new machine
- Apply for new auth codes and enter them

A second method would be the disaster recovery method (mmrecov) as mentioned in the "Disaster Recovery Guide".

 

[kdoe]

Sorry,
the networker server remains the same.

We will change a networker client(fileserver). The new client hardware should become the hostname of the old client hardware.

Klaus

 

[605]

Then there will be no problem.

 

[kdoe]

But the new hardware has a new networker client id?
When the server is changed, the new hardware becomes the hostname of the former server with different client id.

 

[605]

The client ID is not hardware-related. Once it has been assigned (by NW) it will not change.