RE: [ActiveDir] recover a file server in Windows 2003

[Philobatheer Guirgis]

Hi Paul,

Unfortunately, this server is not clustered.  I built another server similar to it.  The production server is connected to the SAN.  Suppose I want to disconnect the SAN and reconnect it to the new lab server; I think the shared folders will not be shared anymore on the lab server.

 

Do you know where in the registry the sharenames are located? I would like to copy the registry key from one server to another.  Or I need a script that copies the sharenames from the old server to the new server without losing any data.

 

Thanks,
 Phil

Paul van Geldrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

How exactly do you plan to failover to this server (at least, that’s what I presume you want to do) ?

First option that springs to mind is setting up a two-node cluster, letting the cluster-resources reside on the SAN disks. That way, if one of the servers fails, everything’ll smoothly transfer to the other server.

Keep in mind, however, that during the transfer connections to open files will hiccup (or even completely falter).

The nice part about clustering the lot is that you can just maintain the resource per se, instead of having to configure folders etc on two separate servers.

 

Regards,

 

Paul

 

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Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:18 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] recover a file server in Windows 2003

 

Hi,

 

I am working on building a recovery server for a Windows 2003 file server.  This file server is connected to the SAN and contains many shared folders.  How could I configure the recovery server with the same shared folder if I connected it to the same SAN volumes.?

 

Thanks,

Philo