Subj : moving server
To   : Darren Gibbs
From : Mike Tripp
Date : Tue Oct 10 2000 10:31 am

Hello Darren.

09 Oct 00 04:44, Darren Gibbs wrote to Mike Tripp:

 MT>> It certainly =can= be, if the server configuration is suitably
 MT>> simple. My 3.11 server has been running since 1989, and I can
 MT>> assure you that is not using the same drives it started with. I
 MT>> have done this, as I described it...multiple times.

 DG> So, enlighten us all - how do you get NCOPY to process the bindery
 DG> files?

Good question...I =thought= it had the API calls to handle open/close as do 
BINDFIX, BINDREST, NBACKUP, etc...but damned if I don't get access errors 
trying it now. Might not've noticed not getting a new bindery, only using 
SUPERVISOR and GUEST accounts (as I said, "suitably simple").  Timestamps on 
both NCOPY and NET$*.SYS are circa '91, and I've certainly done the drive 
shuffles several times since then.

BINDFIX puts current stamps on the NET$*.SYS and NET$*.OLD when it runs...gave 
mine both '00s.  Don't have any NET$*.OLD files, either...so I didn't NCOPY the 
..OLDs to the new drive and BINDREST, though it would certainly accomplish the 
task.  Never trusted NBACKUP/SBACKUP as one or both seemed to be the stars of 
just about every patch release in those days.  Didn't come from a tape, either, 
as the Wangtek was yanked and tossed into a box in the garage after failing to 
restore 20% of its "verified" contents during the swapout from ESDI to IDE.

So I'm going to guess that maybe BINDREST from the original SYS: files to the 
new SYS: volume might preserve the original timestamps or the server uses an 
old date when recreating them from scratch if not found.  Will tinker with it 
if/when I finally get around to retiring the existing box for one that supports 
a bit more CPU/RAM, but there's more than a few weekends of trickling hardware 
down through the nodes first.

Still, none of the bundled DOS utils are a substitute for real 3rd-party backup 
software if trying to preserve the more sophisticated stuff.

..\\ike

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