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[Networker] Adding a new client with old name -- Thanks!

2004-02-26 18:04:46
Subject: [Networker] Adding a new client with old name -- Thanks!
From: George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:05:34 -0500
Thanks, all! As the OS did not change, I'll leave well enough alone.

George

"Werth, Dave" wrote:
>
> George,
>
> We recently upgraded our file/print server from Windows NT 4.0 to W2K on new
> hardware.  We even reconfigured the drives so what was the D: drive on the
> old system became the F: drive on the new one (and we left the CD/DVD drive
> as D:).  We retained the original node name and IP address.
>
> On the advice of Davina Treiber I did nothing other than a full backup after
> the change and we've had no problems.
>
> Just today I had to restore a file from the old D: drive and even though it
> showed up as a CD drive in the restore GUI I was able to find and restore
> the file (to a new location of course) without a problem.
>
> Dave
>
> David Werth
> Garmin AT, Inc
> (formerly: UPS Aviation Technologies)
> (formerly: II Morrow)
> Salem, Oregon
> dave.werth AT garmin DOT com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Sinclair [mailto:George.Sinclair AT noaa DOT gov]
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:21 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Adding a new client with old name?
>
> Hi,
>
> How do people handle a situation where you wipe a client and then
> re-install the OS and then re-add it as a client with the same name?
>
> Here's an example. You have a client outside a firewall that's being
> backed up. One day, you decide to move the client inside the firewall,
> so you wipe the disk, re-install the OS, re-install networker client,
> and now what? Should you
> A. first remove the client from the listing, rename the old index and
> then re-create client entry?
>
> Seems like this would start you out with a clean slate, and if you ever
> had to recover anything old then you could either use saveset recover or
> rename the new index and then move the old index back to original name
> and/or use the nsrck -L7 trick or whatever that is wherein you recover
> older version of the client's index.
>
> B. Don't make any changes on NetWorker server end of things. Just run a
> full on the new client which will simply add new index entries to
> existing index from before. This has benefit of allowing you to recover
> older files from before if necessary?
>
> Any recommendations or normal policy to follow here?
>
> Thanks.
>
> George
>
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