Hi,
I am trying to build an Alpha Station 400 to the same specification as our
production server, which is an Alpha 4100 running OSF 4.0d and Oracle8, as a
test of our Disaster Recovery capability.
I have taken a full backup (using vdump) of the production server on tape.
My plan is to install the operating system on the new machine, configure the
disks, create the file systems (they have to be advfs), and restore the
files.
My main questions are:
-Because I am restoring the data from a different machine, would there be
conflict with the new hardware, such as kernel errors?
-Can I rebuild the machine without actually installing an OS on the new
machine, as I'm able to call a Unix shell session during the initial
installation?
I would greatly appreciate any help and procedures if anyone has done
something similar to this or, even better, if someone could suggest a better
way of achieving the above.
Regards,
Chris Low
Datacom Systems Ltd.
chrislo_at_datacom.co.nz
Received on Mon Apr 03 2000 - 05:18:00 NZST