Upgrading Hardware Or Replacing A Server; Planned Hardware Or Storage Device Upgrade Without Replacing The Server - Novell EDIRECTORY 8.8 - ADMINISTRATION Manual

You can also invest in third-party products that provide additional management solutions for your
eDirectory environment. For more information, see the following Web sites:
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If you need to monitor or audit certain characteristics of eDirectory that our partners do not provide,
Novell Consulting Services can help you use the Novell Event System for customized assessment
and auditing.

16.6 Upgrading Hardware or Replacing a Server

This section provides information about transferring or safeguarding eDirectory on a specific server
when you upgrade or replace hardware. It is based on information in
Novell eDirectory" on page
The Backup eDirectory Management Tool allows you to prepare eDirectory information on a server
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16.6.1 Planned Hardware or Storage Device Upgrade without
Replacing the Server
If you are planning to upgrade hardware such as a storage device or RAM, you prepare by doing a
cold backup of eDirectory using the Backup eMTool, as well as a file system backup. This will let
you safeguard the server's eDirectory identity and file system data, which has the following benefits:
• If you are replacing storage devices, the backups let you transfer information from the old
• If you are replacing the storage device that includes the disk partition/volume containing
• Doing a cold backup of eDirectory and keeping the database closed afterward means you can
• If anything goes wrong, you have backups you can use to recover.
For the eDirectory cold backup, you must use the options to lock and disable eDirectory on the
server, preventing any data change after the backup is made. To other servers that communicate with
this server, the server appears to be down. Any eDirectory information that is normally sent to the
server is stored by other servers in the tree until they can communicate with the server again. The
stored information is used to synchronize the server when you bring it back online.
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BindView (http://www.bindview.com)
Blue Lance (http://www.bluelance.com)
NetPro* (http://www.netpro.com)
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"Planned Replacement of a Server" on page 516
storage devices to the new.
eDirectory, having this backup information lets you use the restore process to re-create the
eDirectory database on the new storage device.
upgrade hardware and transfer the database without worrying that the database has changed
since the backup.
"Backing Up and Restoring