Rebuilding a Groupwise 5.5 Server

[Bry12345]

I am about to try to help someone rebuild a Groupwise 5.5 Server that was running on a Novell 4x server. The problem is that the server was stolen, and the only backup available is a full logical copy of the single volume on the server.

I have a clean install of 5.5 running. I'm just not sure what to do about what I need to do to 'migrate' the files from the old server onto the new one.

Any suggestions you might have before I get started would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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Bryan

 

[KenB]

Did you lose the NDS data with the missing server as well?

Ken

 

[Bry12345]

It's a pretty small firm, so I had him recreate it on the new build. Because it was rebuilt from memory, it probably is not identical to the original.

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Bryan

 

[KenB]

You may have a little bit of work ahead of you. If you only had 1 volume on the missing server and all the info was on that volume just hope that your backup is a good one. On the new server add the backup software so you can get access to the tape drive, then try to do a restore of the backup. You may have to boot the server to DOS first and edit the startup and change the SCSI driver then start the server without the autoexec file so you can edit it if you need to change the nic driver stuff. From there restart the server and see if it flys. If that isn't posible you may have to try a different way as long as the Domain and PO directories are recoverable

Ken