Convert a NW server to a Storage node

[DaiHawkins]

NW 7.2.1 on Windows server 2003.

Is it possible to convert an exsisting NW Server to become a Storage node and set up a new NW Server ?

 

[Chapter11]

Easy enough.

It's possible to rehost your Networker server, procedures for that are well-established.

After that, just remove the Networker software from the original server, reinstall it as a Storage Node, do the necessary configs on the new server, and go to town.

 

[605]

There is even an easier way: disable the nsrd.exe daemon by disabling the "NW backup and recover service".

 

[DaiHawkins]

Is it possible to transfer the indexes to the new server, so the backups which have been done on the server which is to become the storage node can still be restotred?

 

[605]

I am not sure. You may try to recover the index backups on the new server. I guess it should work.

 

[Chapter11]

ah-so 605, but if you merely disable the nsrd.exe daemon on the "old" server, will the server then know that it is supposed to be a storage node to another server, or will its nsrexec's still try to connect back to itself?

 

[605]

Well, the host will knows that it is not running as server. The only thing you may have to adjust is the servers file.

A client becomes a SN automatically,
- if the SN software has been installed and
- if a remote device on this node has been defined