Donna Garverick wrote in message ...
>hi all~
>
>i have a system that has a collection of disc drives --
>wholly contained in two jamaica enclosures -- that i want to
>move to another system *with* the data and directory
>structure intact and have the new system recognize the
>everything.  (that's is no restore from tape....)  i talked
>to my ase about this.  he said it was doable and gave me the
>following....
>
>1.    Back up all data on volsets to be moved
>2.    Use BULDACCT to create accounting structure as you
>would want it in case of a need to manually rebuild volume
>sets
>3.    Shutdown the donor system
>4.    Configure the disc mechs on the target system
>5.    Add any accounts as needed on target system (this may
>be the tricky part).  You will not be able to use ;ONVS yet,
>as the sets are not there.
>6.    Shut down the target system
>7.    Move cabling for the drives to the target system
>8.    START NORECOVERY on target system
>9.    Check for disk drives
>
>i thought i'd better pass this by y'all before i tried
>anything.  it would seem to me that all is not quite
>right....  why use buldacct (step 2) if you're not going to
>use it?  what about step 5?  assuming this were to actually
>work...i have to live with the private volume names,
>right?               - d
>
>--
>Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
>925-210-6631        [log in to unmask]
>
>>>>MY opinions, not Longs Drug Stores'<<<
>

Donna,

   I probably would use the BULDACCT jobs created in step 2 to make the
accounting structure on the new system.  It is easier (in my opinion of
course) to run these jobs rather than trying to remember what
accounts/groups/users are on the private volume set (oops...non-system
domain volume sets that is:) ) and not to mention what UDCs the users might
have set.

  As for the private volume names....yes you will have to live with them.
Back in the 4.0 days I tried renaming a volume set by hand (via :DEBUG's
MSEC command).  It never quite worked.  Once or twice it came up okay, but a
couple of other times the drives were in accessable.  When I asked HP about
it they informed me that no one has every requested the ability to rename a
volume set....officially.  So I dropped it.

   Hope this helps.

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| Michael P. Smith                                              |
| Sr. Systems Programmer                                        |
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