Migrating to NetWare 6
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NetWare 6 Migration is the ultimate achievement in "nerdiness." It's probably the most popular installation method for NetWare 6. After all, there are already millions of NetWare servers out there no one wants to start from scratch. With migration, existing CNEs can simply transfer NDS information and data files to the new NetWare 6 eDirectory village. The beauty of this system is that you don't have to repopulate it. The NetWare 6 Migration uses an across-the-wire method for transferring eDirectory information and data from one server to another across the LAN. It requires three machines, each with specific hardware/software requirements:
The NetWare 6 Migration method is the safest upgrade/migration option because the source server also known as an "escape pod" remains intact. You can also use it to migrate all or selected information (which is particularly useful when dealing with sensitive data files). Furthermore, this multifaceted migration option allows you to consolidate multiple source servers to a single NetWare 6 machine. So, how does it work? Good question. All of this fancy across-the-wire footwork is made possible by the NetWare Migration Wizard. Here's a quick preview of the NetWare 6 migration steps we'll explore in this section:
In step 1, you jump-start the migration process by preparing the source/target servers and installing the NetWare Migration Wizard. Then, in step 2, you can create your Migration Project. The Migration Project is a database wizard that stores your migration configuration settings. In steps 3 and 4, you will actually perform the across-the-wire migration using the data you configured in the Migration Project database. Finally, the migration ends with some simple housekeeping cleanup chores in step 5. Now, that wasn't so bad, was it? So, let's migrate our old, cranky NetWare 5.1 server into a NetWare 6 supermachine. |
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