Urgent HELP required

[ianlawuk]

We have just had to rebuild our Symposium 5.0.

We have created a 4 partion disk for the database with each partition @ 16gb (total 64gb).

When we try to reatore it gives us an error saying the databse requires 24gb.

Any ideads why we can;t load the 24gb data into the new build?

Thanks

 

[Utreg]

The 16 Gbytes partition looks fine according to page 104 of the 'Symposium Portfolio Server and Operating System Requirements' guide.

http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=DOCDETAIL&id=322138&poid=8539

Mind:
Drive F and any additional drives are used to store the database.
Drives F–U must be partitioned as Logical drives within xtended partitions

You rebuild the system using the Nortel guidelines?
More information for restore you can find on page 1053 of the Installation and Maintenance Guide for Windows 2003

http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=DOCDETAIL&id=860547&poid=8539

 

[yyrkroon]

You had to rebuilt your server, was the partition on your original server 4 16gb partition or 1 24gb parttion?

If your orginial server was built with 1 or 2 24gb part and now you're trying to stuff data from a 24gb into a 16gb partition, it's not going to work.

 

[sandyml]

yyrkroon is right - the number and size of the drives must match or exceed that of your original, or the restore will not work.

 

[ianlawuk]

Thanks for your replies so far.

The partition sizes are the sames as before the reload.

I think the clean rebuild has created 'default' database sizes within the partitions, so the 24gb won;t fit into the system allocated space.

We are now trying a migration style restore which sounds like it creates a DB based on the backed up data, so it should be the right size.

We will see.

Cheers again

 

[dj4020]

What kind of a restore are you trying to perform. Full server backup/restore ? ? ? or Platform migration ? ? ?

 

[dj4020]

Sorry upon reading your last entry I see your using a platform migration restore. Do you have a platform migration disk that was current to the backup you are using ? ? ? The file that is 24 gig is a SQL Sybase flat file dump. Therefore the need of a current Platform migration disk. If you have performed any patching and did not update your platform migration disk you may be in big trouble. The platform migration disk stores allot of information that must be identical to server you have built. Good luck. . .

 

[sandyml]

Well dj4020, of course you have asked some critical questions. Wonder how this is going... ?

 

[ianlawuk]

No migration disk... So the whole restore was abit messy.

We evntually got it working.