I need to clone a Partner Mail Hard Drive - HELP!!! 1

[joed7070]

Hi all,

I am responsible for maintaining backup hard drives for Partner & Merlin mails in the event a replacement is needed. I want to know if anyone has had any luck cloning one and if so, what product or method works best. This is for the Partner Mail R3. It is an older CP/M and CDOS combination of partitions. Any help appreciated.

Thanks!

Joe

 

[drewmich]

Joe,

Setting up a backup of your programming for the Merlin and Partner mail stand alones is a very tricky process primarily due to the propriatary versions of the software and operating system Lucent used with the software.

If you are concerned about having a backup of the hard drive or at a minimum of your programming I usally recommend the Partner VS R5.0 or the new Partner Messaging R1.0 which allows you to use the backup/restore functions built into the solftware programming to a PCMCIA card designed for that purpose. That has been a shortfall of the older Merlin/Partner voice mails.

If you do ever have a hard drive fail or other problem with your older voice mails, we can usually save your original programming during our VM repair work. It just depends on how bad the drive is damaged - lightning etc - and whether the software was corrupted on the drive.

Hope that helps.
Andrew Roach
President
Drew Communications
Drew Telecom Group, Inc.
Lucent Voice Mail and Component Repair Specialists
Lucent Telecom Brokers/Resellers
drew@triton.net
616-498-9213

 

[stratagydk]

Joe

Try Norton Ghost 2002 using the -ia command line switch.

You have to be careful and observe the geometries of your source and desitination drives.