Disc to Disc copy

[eyedoc1975]

Hi, Everyone,
I have a Acer server with a 4.2 Gig SCSI hard drive.
I would like to install a 9.1 Gig hard drive and
transfer all the datafiles and partitions onto the
larger drive. What is the best way to do this?. Copy the
entire HD on a DAT tape and traansfer or is there a way
to put 9.1 drive on the SCSI chain and make a copy?
Please help.
Thanks in advance.

 

[DZello]

I'm also trying to do this. Please help us!

 

[edfair]

Both Lone-Tar and BackupEdge software packages have recovery rebuild utilities that will do what you need to do.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[david228]

HI sorry I cannot help as I too need to do this

 

[stevensavage]

To add a second disk to a machine in SCO use the mkdev hd command.

This is the same whether scsi or ide

Connect the second drive and note its scsi/ide adapter, ID etc.

login as root
run mkdev hd
Enter the details as prompted for the disk

It will need to relink the kernel
do this and reboot
Run mkdev hd again and enter the same details

It will then mount the disk
You then need to divvy the second disk, create filesystems and mount them.

divvy diskname
Put names on the filesystems that you see listed (if there are ones there already - DO NOT CREATE filesystems if there are already ones in there as this will erase everything on the disk)

If its a blank disk, create the filesystems using start and end points and name and create them.

Then run mkdev fs to mount the named filesystems

Choose the disk partition name and then the filesystem name you are giving it.

Finally - mount the filesystem

mount /dev/filesysname /mountpoint name
e.g. mount /dev/u2 /u2

As you can see, it is a complicated long-winded job and you need to be careful running it. I have done it lots of times and had no problems as long as you remember the important rules -
Only choose to create a filesystem while in divvy if there is nothing in it
Make sure you have all of the scsi/ide adapter and ID info

Post any further queries and I'll help if i can

good luck

Steve

 

[DZello]

I'm a Linux/FreeBSD user and I don't know much about SCO Openserver. We're planning to replace all our SCSI drives and I want to copy all the system to a spare disk before creating a new RAID set with more drives.

Thanks for your help but how do I copy all the files to the new drive? How can I make this new disk bootable?

 

[edfair]

The suggestions for lone-tar or backup edge were suggested for the restore capabilities of their recovery disks.
You could look at dd or cpio. Both are built-in file copy utilities that can be used in recovery applications.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.