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1. At this point you are prompted to enter the IP address the name of the file that 1s to be created accessed the user name and the password of the remote FTP server Cursor down to the temp img yourimage file and select it by pressing Enter Portlock Storage Manager will communicate with the server and start the actual imaging process It will also be simultaneously sending the image to the FTP server to be stored as an image file Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 43 Image Commands 44 Image Status for DOS FATi6 gt 32 MB Partition on Device 1 Partition 1 Drive Label HULOCRLUOL Cluster Size 8 192 bytes Partition ize HB Space Used Space Free Image Progress Connected to FIF server 192 168 1 10 on port 1431 Image File tmp img Image Size 15 655 076 current image file Spanning On Span Size Press ESC to stop Complete 25 H8Bz Elapsed Time 2 Estimated Time Left 5 Blocks to Image 7 452 Blocks Imaged 1 872 Bytes Written 15 622 208 Compression Ratio 1 1 Performance 7 488 EBS EJ 2 000 MB Image AutoName The Image Status screen will appear There is an abundance of useful information contained on the actual progress screen such as the copy progress indicator bar information on the volume being copied percent complete elapsed time estimated time left performance in Kilobytes per second and a few others Once the entire process is complete the M2. 0 1 ene d 09 ee eae From the Select Image Destination menu select Write image to an FTP server by highlighting it and pressing Enter Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 45 Image Commands 46 Llompressicon Image Creation December 11 2002 10 25 27 I Enabled Image File Options Auto name image tiles image 001 image z J Ask for new filename when the image File is full py i l L Split image files at 2000 ME 1 MB 1 000 000 bytes Wait after each image file change D Help Press ESC to exit The Image Option screen appears having several selectable options pertaining to the image being created The first option is Compression You can choose to Enable or Disable compression Enabling compression will create smaller file sizes but will take longer to image and restore Disabling compression will allow for faster imaging and restoring but results in larger file sizes If you would like to write images to a NetWare partition and have Portlock Storage Manager auto name each file after the first one specify Auto name image files field Auto naming of image files will cause Portlock Storage Manager to start writing with the name of the image file that you specify If you specified an image file name of nwserver img and the file size limit is reached a new file is created with a suffix of 000 e g nwserver 000 As each file fills a new file is created e g nwserver 001 etc Portlo
3. As you can see in the screenshot above the system is listening on TCP Port 19000 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 31 Image Commands 32 Image Complete I Image Status for DOS FHTi6 gt 32 MB Partition on Device 1 Partition 1 Drive Label HULOCRLUOT Complete 33 68 Cluster Size 8 192 bytes Elapsed Time 3 Partition Size 494 MB Estimated Time Left 5 Space Used 58 HB Blocks to Image Space Free 435 ME Blocks Imaged 2 528 Bytes Written 21 601 468 Compression Ratio 1 1 Performance 6 741 EBS Received connection from 192 168 1 267 on port 1661 Image Progress Press ESC to stop The image status screen provides information about the image progress As you can see there is an abundance of useful information on this screen such as Volume Name Block Size Volume Size Segment Count Current Segment Segment Size Space Used Space Free Completion percentage Elapsed Time Estimated Time Left Blocks to Copy Blocks Copied Performance in KBS and a Copy Progress indicator bar Status DH PH Partition or Volume Type i 2 WSS Pool As you can see the only item selected to be imaged was the FAT16 and the image process for this volume was successful Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Writing an Image to a Tape Portlock Storage Manager supports all SCSI tape drives that support writing in Variable Length Mode Portlock Storage Manager does not support tape drives that only su
4. resizable during the restore Portlock Storage Manager implements a third generation technology for imaging NetWare servers that maximizes the performance of the image and restore commands For most systems Portlock Storage Manager can easily stream the fastest SCSI tape drives such as the DAT DLT SDLT AIT or LTO Portlock Storage Manager can image a NetWare server while NetWare is running or from DOS Device drivers written for NetWare are 32 bit drivers that have been optimized for performance For this reason we recommend imaging servers from NetWare instead of from DOS DOS device drivers are typically 16 bit real mode drivers that are usually not optimized for performance but rather for small memory size You will often see a two to one performance difference between DOS device drivers and NetWare device drivers Portlock Storage Manager supports both the NWPA HAM drivers and NWIO DSK drivers for communicating with tape drives When using the NWPA interface Portlock Storage Manager interfaces directly with the HAM drivers When using the NWIO interface Portlock Storage Manager uses the ASPI interface NWPA drivers are faster Portlock Storage Manager only supports ASPI drivers for communicating with tape drives under DOS ASPI drivers provide an interface to SCSI Host Adapters that is consistent across various makes and models of SCSI Controllers Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 3 Image Commands Considerations when I
5. Portlock Storage Manager reports device geometry in the logfile Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Online Imaging You will need to create a SNAPSHOT pool and volume in order to Online Image This can be accomplished using the NSS Management Utility nssmu Volumes Pool Informat ior act ivre ZLSZ Hot Sharable for Clustering SNAP SHOT W Ti In m T Jul 1 z005 Jul 1 z b5 At the Pool Information screen press Insert to create a new pool name As you can see our new pool will be named SNAPSHOT Press Enter to name the new pool and continue Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 9 Image Commands Axrailable Partitions 4 07 GEB W504 42 D0 0 VW504 A42 D0 0 HP Smart 2 2 46 GE v5n d04 Az DbO20 z2z wv5 d i amp z Db z HP Smart Z Select the partition where the pool will be created and press Enter Next enter the partition size and press Enter to continue Next select Volumes from the NSS Management Utility Main Menu Press Enter to create a new volume within the new SNAPSHOT pool 10 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Logical Volume Information 3 Unix Purgeable Sp Mumber of oh Wumber of oO h Wow m Jul 1 z b5 Jul 1 z005s Newer ES ag fi fi At the Logical Volume Information screen press Insert to create a new volume name As you can see the new volume will be named SNAPSHOT Press Enter t
6. a new file name and the process can continue on the new disk drive or volume Portlock Storage Manager supports limiting the size of each image file to any size in multiples of 1 000 000 bytes If you want to create an image that is limited to 600 MB for writing to a CD ROM specify a size of 600 in the Split image files at 600 MB field Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands If you want to use removable media and you want to exchange the media when full specify Wait after each image file change field For this example Compression has been Disabled and Auto naming is Enabled Press Enter to continue oe NOTE Never give the initial image file a numeric extension as you may overwrite one of the files that you require as part of the image larger then 2000MB in size Specify the FIP server name image file to save and login information Server is the server name or IP address of the FIP server Image File is the file to access on the FIP server User is the login name for the FIP server Password is the password for the FIP server Press FS to get a directory listing from the FIP server Press Fi when ready to go to the next screen or ESC to cancel Specify index ftp to get the custom index File for image selection Enter the TCP IP address of the FIP server Server 192 168 1 16 Image File tmp img User anonymous Password Press ES C to cancel Press FI to continue
7. considered a normal backup solution for your server as it does not by design support individual file backups or restores You need to have another backup mechanism for this If you choose to use Portlock Storage Manager as a backup mechanism not recommended you will have to restore the entire volume on your server to get that one file back Single Server Environment If you have a single server environment you will be using Portlock Storage Manager this is a simpler environment for imaging and restoration 4 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Disaster Recovery If you are using Portlock Storage Manager to have an off site disaster recovery image you need to understand when you restore the image all the data will be at the currently backed up version This means that any email or documents are only imaged at the time of the image Any newer files will not be part of the image that you have For disaster recovery you would need to restore the image that you made with Portlock Storage Manager and then overwrite the information with the latest version of the backup This will give you a server that has all of the data up to the most recent backup that you restored Your only consideration 1s that all of your user ids and passwords for these user ids will be the ones that were used when the Portlock Storage Manager image was created Some backup software such as DeTroubler from Futuregate Software does support restoratio
8. directly image to a DVD recorder As most servers do not have DVD recorders installed in some cases not even a DVD ROM a better option may be to image the server to an FTP server see next section for details and then burn those created images to a DVD or CD to do a file restore see Chapter 8 for details on restoration of images from a disk file When the DVD image command is run it will allow you to make an image of your server directly to the DVD recorder If the media is not formatted then Portlock Storage Manager will format the media and then proceed to write the image If the image size exceeds the capacity of the media then you will be asked to remove the existing media and insert new media so that the image can be spanned to accommodate the full image Storage Manager can read an image from several types of sources File This can be a normal file on a NetWare volume or a DOS partition TCP IP A The other Tape The FTP The HTTP The data stream can be received using TCP IP from another computer computer must be running either Image Manager or Storage Manager image can be read from an IDE or SCSI Tape Drive image can be read from a file on an FTP Server image can be read from a file on a Web Server select Image Source disk file TCP IP link tape drive Heb Server n FTP Server Select Write Image to a CD DVD Recorder and press Enter to continue 38 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Comm
9. 3 Image Commands Storage Manager can Comper image as it is being written provide hardware to IDE or SCSI Tape drives that When writing images compression do not enable software compression Morte dri ez do not provide hardware compression Are CWare We Press ESC to exit From the Select Compression Mode menu select to either Disable or Enable Software Write Compression In our example we will select Disable Software Write Compression by pressing ENTER to continue We selected this option because our tape drive supports hardware compression NOTE When writing images to IDE or SCSI Tape drives that provide hardware compression do not enable software compression Some inexpensive tape drives do not provide hardware compression Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 34 Image Commands The Select Tape Drive menu will appear with a list of all detected tape drives In our example we will select Device 1 which is a QUANTUM DLT7000 by pressing ENTER to continue Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 35 Image Commands Most high performance tape drives us Wariahble Length mode to access aata on the tape However not al ape drives support this mode DLT perform poorly in Fixed Length mode DAT perform poorly in Variable Length mode Press ESC to exit From the Select Tape Mode menu choose the mode that best suits your hardware In our example we will select to Access tape usi
10. Image Commands IMAGE COMMANDS Image Commands This chapter includes the following topics Overview of the Image Commands Considerations when Imaging a Server Preparing to Image a NetWare server Writing and image using Online Imaging Writng an image to CD DVD Writing an Image to a Disk File Writing an Image to a TCP IP Link Writing an Image to a Tape Drive Writing an image to an FTP Server Using Image Spanning Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 1 Image Commands Overview of the Image Commands Portlock Storage Manager images Compaq Dell and IBM Diagnostic partitions DOS FAT16 partitions Traditional volumes and NSS Volumes NetWare Partitions are not imaged only the volumes within the NetWare partition Imaging the NetWare Partition is not necessary as they are created on the fly by Portlock Storage Manager during a restore NOTE For NetWare 6 x NSS the volumes are not imaged the Pool is imaged It is not possible to image volumes within a Pool In order to move a volume from one Pool to another you need to use the Volume Copy command discussed in Chapter 5 Portlock Storage Manager images Traditional and NSS Volumes by storing the volume data blocks and file system structure into the image This allows the volumes to be resizable during the restore Portlock Storage Manager implements a third generation technology for imaging NetWare servers that maximizes the performance of the ima
11. NAPSHU T The pool SNAPSHOT will not be imaged during Online Imaging zt hawe free space that is 55 being imaged minimum Continue with Online A confirmation screen will appear Select Continue and press Enter 16 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Thawing all pools in image Two screens will appear while the snapshot is being taken Do not press any key during this time N NOTE Once the snapshot is taken any data written after this point will not be saved in the image Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 17 Image Commands Manacper File This can orn i s Wi or a DOS partition TCP IP zc am F ing TCP IP to another comput ler a e qe Manager The other Hast i ither Image Manager or Star Tape i In m WEL F or SCSI Tape Drive i an FTP Server C inat ior r file IP link tape drive CEC CYC Becorder FTF server rt t m n a m mp m m gm ct a ct Select image destination and press Enter to save the image to the selected destination 18 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Writing an Image to a Disk File Image Commands Portlock Storage Manager can write a server image to a disk file either on a DOS partition or a NetWare volume both Traditional and NSS US NOTE The maximum file size that the file system supports e g DOS partitions are limited to files of 2 GB NetWare volumes to 4 GB Main Menu Drive Co
12. Pool UUL1 POOL 2 HHH HB This status screen will appear informing you that the image process was a success for our selectd selected items Press ESC or ENTER to close the screen 40 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Writing an Image to an FTP Server One of the newest features in Portlock Storage Manager is the ability to image and restore using a remote FTP server This ability gives Network Administrators the ability to easily store and retrieve images of volumes partitions and even entire servers This ability is good for backups as well as for storing and retrieving images that are used in a test environment x NOTE Some FIP servers are case sensitive for file names This means that if a file is DOS img then specifying dos img will not work Storage Manager can save the image to several types of destinations File This can be a normal file on a NetWare volume or a DOS partition TCP IP fi data stream can he sent using TCP IP to another computer The other computer must be running either Image Manager or Storage Manager Tape The image can be written to an IDE or SCSI Tape Drive FIP The image can be read from a file on an FIF Server Select Image Destination a disk file a TCP IP link a tape drive a CD DUD Recorder Press ESC to cancel From the Select Image Destination menu select Write image to an FTP server by highlighting it and pressing Enter Portlock Sto
13. ach image file change field If you would like to write images to a NetWare partition and have Portlock Storage Manager auto name each file after the first one specify Auto name image files ield Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 25 Image Commands Auto naming of image files will cause Portlock Storage Manger to start writing with the name of the image file that you specify Let s say that you specified an image file name of nwserver img When the file size limit is reached a new file is created with a suffix of 000 e g nwserver 000 As each file fills a new file is created e g nwserver 001 etc If the disk runs out of space you will be prompted for a new file name and the process can repeat on the new disk drive or volume overwrite one of the files that you require as part of the image also ensure CS NOTE Never give the initial image file a numeric extension as you may that the 1mage files are no larger than 2000 MB in size Enter a Filename to write the image kn Filename Es At this point you are prompted to type in the file name and destination for the image being created The image can be written to a DOS partition by using C or to a NetWare volume by using the volumename In this example we will type in Voll sysimage img and press Enter to continue Portlock Storage Manager will automatically create an image file of the items selected and save it as sysimage img in the volume named VOLI 26 Portloc
14. ain Device Status screen will appear verifying the success or failure of each individual item Press ESC to return to the Main Menu Image Complete Press ESC or ENTER to close screen This status screen will appear informing you that the image is complete Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Using Image Spanning Writing an image to an FTP server with Image Spanning selected breaks files up into pieces that are smaller Image spanning is a selectable option that allows the user to segment an image file into equally sized segments The size of these segments is something that the user must input on the Image Options screen In our example we will be Writing an image to an FTP server There are a few factors to consider 1 What do you want to do with the image e g create a series of 600 MB files to be written to a CD ROM 2 What type of media are you writing to e g you are writing the image to a removable JAZ drive and will need to switch JAZ cartridges every GB the image to several types of destinations File This can be a normal file on a NetWare volume or a DOS partition TCP IP i The other comput must hb running either Image Manager or Storage Manager sent using TCP IP to another computer Tape The image can be written to an IDE or SCSI Tape Drive t Image Destination noc oad disk file TCP IP link image image image ca ct ct a Press ESC to exit
15. ands storage Manager can compress the image as it is being written When writing images to IDE or SCSI Tape drives that provide hardware compression do not enable software compression Note Some inexpensive tape drives do not provide hardware compression select Compression Mode Enable Software Write Compression You now select whether you wish the image to be compressed or not compressed If the imagefile is compressed then it will consume less space If it is not compressed then it will take up more space on the DVDs Select CD DUD Drive Device 1 IDE IMuare Virtua You are now asked which of the attached DVD recorders you wish to write to Select the correct DVD recorder and press Enter to continue Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 39 Image Commands Image Status for DOS FATI6 gt 32 HB Partition on Device 1 Partition 1 Drive Label NHLOCALVOL Complete 2 342 Lluster Size 8 192 bytes Elapsed Time 3 Partition Size 494 MB Estimated Time Left H2 H4 space Used 56 MB Blocks to Image 7 494 Space Free 435 MB Blocks Imaged 176 Bytes Written 1 715 806 Compression Ratio 1 1 Performance 469 EBS Writing to CD R Device 1 IDE UMWare Virtual IDE CDROM Drive Image Progress space Remaining Before End of CD R Media 7H1 MB CD R Media Size 7H2 MB 359 847 Blocks The image writing to the DVD recorder is now taking place PH Partition or Volume Type rs 194 MB N55 Pool ss 2 601 MB NSS
16. artition TCP IP A data stream can be sent using TCP IP to another computer The other computer must be running either Image Manager or Storage Manager Tape The image can be written to an IDE or SCSI Tape Drive FIF The image can he read from a file on an FIF Server Select Image Destination t a disk file Write image to a TCP IP link i image to a tape drive image to a CD DUD Recorder Write image to an FIP server Press ESC to cancel 15 1 10 QV QUA a V i mu From the Select Image Destination menu choose the option Write image to a TCP IP link With a TCP IP link a data stream can be received from another computer The other computer must be running either Portlock Image Manager located in the same directory as Portlock Storage Manager IMAGEMGR NLM or Portlock Storage Manager Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 29 Image Commands 30 Storage Manager can compress the image as it is being written When writing images to IDE or SCSI Tape drives that provide hardware compression do not enable software compression Mote Some inexpensive tape drives do not provide hardware compression Select Compression Mode r le e uU Compression Portlock Storage Manager can compress the image as it is being written For a server to server migration you should not enable compression because it could slow the process down From the Compression Mode menu select whether to Disable or Enable software write compression an
17. ck Storage Manager User Manual 13 Image Commands Loading Module BASH WL ato Loading Module LIBEC NLH 7F O1l z0o005 1 07 49 pm AFPTCP z ziop on wolume PORTLOCH iz Loading Module HMLIE NLH Loading Module AWT WLU Loading Module FONTIO NLU Loading Module DCPER NLM Loading Module STUEBEMCGE NLM duto Loading Module POUBRBTL CE NLM SMIT MLA pP AFPTCP z 2 13E started on Volume ILU U NU SNAPZSHOT 7 01 2005 pmnm AFPTCP zZ 2 137 on volume ILU NW ZNAPZSOSHUT Found O applications and O icaonizi ILO WMW load swe fstormgqr stormgr Load Storage Manager Hain Menu Drive Commands Partition IER RET Pool Restore Repair CD DVD Tape Syst ei Commardz Check for Updates Benewal Press ESC to exit At the Main Menu select Image Commands Press Enter to continue 14 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Next select Image Entire System and press Enter Df PH Partition or Volume Type IMACE IMACE Press Enter to continue and image the selected items NOTE The SNAPSHOT pool will automatically be omitted from the image Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 15 Image Commands Enable Pool Snapshotring ONLINE Iz Z are OFFLINE nage th 2 E a deact ivre Next select Image Pools Online Press Enter to continue Online Imaging uses Novell Snapshot technology For each pool being imaged a snapshot will be stored on a pool named S
18. ck Storage Manager will Ask for a new filename when the image file is full If the disk runs out of space you will be prompted for a new file name and the process can continue on the new disk drive or volume Note With many FTP servers file sizes over 2000MB may be received by the FTP server but it may not be able to send the file back to Portlock Storage Manager Test that the FTP server supports an FTP get of the files before creating many images Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Portlock Storage Manager supports limiting the size of each image file to any size in multiples of 1 000 000 bytes If you want to create an image that is limited to 600 MB for writing to a CD ROM specify a size of 600 in the Split image files at 600 MB field For this example Compression has been Disabled files are set to be Split at 200 MB Auto naming is Enabled and Waiting after each image file change has been selected Press Enter to continue specify the FTP server name image file to save and login information server is the server name or IP address of the FTP server Image File is the file to access on the FTP server User is the login name for the FTP server Password is the password for the FTP server Press F5 to get a directory listing from the FTP server Press F180 when ready to go to the next screen or ESC to cancel Specify index ftp to get the custom index file for image selection Enter th
19. ct information for your network such as user ids and passwords When you take a server off line or a link to a remote site is down NDS keeps a record of changes that have been made 1 e user has changed their password that will be synced out to the other servers on your network Because of this you need to be aware of the effects of imaging and restoration of servers using Portlock Storage Manager in this environment Disaster Recovery Test Lab If you are creating images to be used for disaster recovery of a server or even to be used in a test environment you must be careful about how they are used If the server is being imaged for disaster recovery when you restore it the existing server information may need to be removed from the tree and treated as a crashed server in NDS There are other options that can be used for this which are discussed in the Novell Knowledge base at http support novell com If you are not able to find the information in the Novell Knowledge base then please consult your local Novell Professional before proceeding If you are cloning a server to be used in a test environment you must make sure that the restored server is not located anywhere on the production network as this may cause severe problems in NDS for both the users and the servers It should only be used on an isolated network Cloning a Server When you clone the server to do an upgrade to a new hardware platform you also have some NDS i
20. d press Enter to continue When transferring an image via TCP IP one side needs to be a server and the other side needs to he a client The system that is running as a server must he started first The system punning as a server will listen for a connection from the other systen Select the TCP IP mode for this systen Select TCP IP Mode TC When transferring an image via TCP IP one side needs to be a server and the other side needs to be a client The system that is running as a server must be started first The system running as a server will listen for a connection from the other system Select the TCP IP mode for this system and press Enter to continue Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Specify the TCP Port number to he used to listen for connections from the remote system The remote system will connect to this system in Client Mode The TCP Port number must he the same on both systems Enter the TCP Port to he used for this computer Local IP Address 192 168 1 285 Local TCP Port d SHH Specify the TCP Port number to be used to listen for connections from the remote system The remote system will connect to this system in Client Mode The TCP Port number must be the same on both systems Waiting for a connection to he established Local IP Address 192 168 1 285 Listening on TCP Port 17668 This screen will appear while the system is waiting for a connection to be established
21. e TCP IP address of the FTP server Server 1927 168 1 111 Image File nw5 img User Password At this point you are prompted to specify the TCP IP address of the FTP server you can either enter the ip address or if DNS has been correctly configured on the server you can enter the IP address FTP server name the image file name and location of the file as well as the username and password for the remote FTP server Press the F10 function key when ready to continue or ESC to cancel and return to the previous screen If you are not sure where you wish to store the image hit the F5 key to get a directory listing of the FTP server Note Some FTP servers are case sensitive for file names This means that if a file is DOS img specifying dos img will not work A Connection screen will appear informing you that the system is trying to connect to the FTP server and proceed to the image process Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 27 Image Commands Here is a listing of an FTP server Navigate to the directory that you wish to save the image to and press F10 to select FTP server and continue MD nun IP onte 2 20 A4 HzZ 2H H4 linux H 16 h4 3 818276276 3277 ing 12 77 83 H 596762546 nHbA_rawn_tfs img H2 17 H4 14157635669 nubspd irmy 12 18 83 1424 stormgr tlic H 2 18 H4 18832 stormgr log H2 25 H4 1661917546 test img 146 227 635 965466 TFS IMG H
22. ere is a listing of an FTP server Navigate to the directory that you wish to save the image to and press F10 to select it and continue specify the FTP server name image file to save and login information server is the server name or IP address of the FTP server Image File is the file to access on the FTP server User is the login name for the FTP server Password is the password for the FTP server Press F5 to get a directory listing from the FTP server Press F1BH when ready to go to the next screen or ESC to cancel Specify index ftp to get the custom index file for image selection Enter the TCP IP address of the FTP server Server 192 158 Image File linux nw5 img User anonymous Password JEJEJEJE You are now presented with the directory that you selected Type in the filename for the image that you require and press F10 to begin the imaging process 48 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Image Status tor volum PIN ui Complete Elapsed Time Estimated Time Lett Blocks to Image Blocks Imaqged Bytes Written Volume Warne Block Size Volume as uy in ei H m 1 Segment Coun ct an oe a E Current ID D we dp 4 doo u Munt ul Le ON ID Lal H ct Compression Ration m uu n on H 4 T Bu in LU of o iD Performance m m Image Connect Image Image 3 This screen informs yo
23. ge and restore commands For most systems Portlock Storage Manager can easily stream to the fastest SCSI tape drives such as the DLT 8000 or the Super DLT An entire NetWare server can be saved into an image that can be stored as an image file on another server or as an image written to a SCSI tape drive Images can consist of multiple files that are spanned Spanning supports images that are larger than the media to which they are written 1 e CD DVDs Restoring an image can be done from DOS or from NetWare An entire server or just portions of the server can be restored from the image Portlock Storage Manager does not support individual file recovery from images This is a deliberate design decision due to our goal of very high performance and compressibility of images Compaq Diagnostic partitions are not resizable when restored This is also deliberate as Diagnostic partitions are special types of partitions DOS Partitions are not resizable during the restore This is a limitation of Portlock Storage Manager that will be corrected in a future release DOS partitions are restored to the same size as the original partition Partitions can be made larger using the partition copy command see Chapter 4 for details d Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Portlock Storage Manager images Traditional and NSS volumes by storing the volume data blocks and file system structure into the image This allows the volumes to be
24. image and the size of the image file Purging volumes is not necessary for Portlock Storage Manager however files that have not been purged will also be imaged and require additional space DECIDE where you want to write the image Portlock Storage Manager can write images to disk files TCP IP links tape drives CD DVD or an FTP server DECIDE how the image will be restored If the restore will be performed from NetWare there are not many issues If the restore is to be performed from DOS you need to make sure that Portlock Storage Manager can see your controllers and disk drives correctly from DOS Not all controllers have drivers written for DOS Not all controllers report the true drivesize from DOS x NOTE If you are imaging a large NetWare server consider imaging in two steps The first US image would be the booting DOS partition and the SYS volume The second would be everything else Then during a full machine restore the DOS partition and SYS volume could be restored from DOS enabling you to reboot into NetWare and restore the rest of the system reducing restore time by 2x or more Keep the combined size of the booting DOS partition and the SYS volume under 8 GB This will ensure that there are no BIOS problems when restoring from DOS A number of RAID controllers only support the first 8 GB of an array from DOS mode If you are not sure run Portlock Storage Manager from DOS with the logfile option then review the logfile
25. k Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Image Status for DOS FATI6 gt 32 ME Partition on Device 1 Partition 1 Drive Label HWLOCALUOL Cluster Size 8 172 hytes Partition Size 494 MB Space Used 58 MB Space Free 435 MB Image Progress Image File sysi temp img Complete Elapsed Time Estimated Time Left Blocks to Image Blocks Imaged Bytes Written Compression Ratio Performance Image Size 15 753 468 Ccurrent image file Free space left on destination 2 668 MB Image Spanning On Span Size 2 H8HBH MB Image AutoName 2h Bii 3 8 7 452 1 888 15 753 468 1 1 0 634 KEBS An Image Status screen will transpire for each of the partitions or volumes selected As you can see there is an abundance of useful information contained on the actual progress screen such as information on the volume being copied percent complete elapsed time estimated time left performance in Kilobytes per second a copy progress indicator bar as well as few others The bottom of the screen shows you the status of the Image process Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 21 Image Commands Status DH PH Partition or Volume Type o T K 3 99 Image Complete Once the entire process is complete the Main Device status screen is shown verifying the success or failure of each individual item Notice that the partitions and pool that we imaged were successful Press ESC to return to the o
26. maging a Server There are several considerations that need to be made when you image a server The information contained in this section should be used as a guideline only If you are unsure please consult a Novell Professional or the Novell Support Knowledge base at http support novell com or you could ask a question in the Novell newsgroups support forums novell com using either a news reader or a web browser The first thing you need to know is what sort of 1mage you want to do For example do you want to perform a Disaster Recovery clone a server to a new hardware platform or upgrade the hard drive space of an image You may wish to have a default server image to be used when you wish to deploy a new server There are two types of environments where there are different considerations that you need to take into account in the event of an image and restore of a server Before we go into the two types of situations you need to understand that Portlock Storage Manager backs up an entire volume This means that even files that have been deleted and not yet been purged by NetWare are also backed up as part of the imaging process If you do not want to bring over the deleted files then you need to run a purge of each of the volumes by using the Novell Toolbox nlm program or the DOS Purge command or you can use the Purge Command for each volume located in the Volume Commands in Portlock Storage Manager Portlock Storage Manager should not be
27. mmands Partition Commands Uo lume Commands Pool Commands Image Commands Restore Commands Repair Commands CD DUD Commands Tape Commands System Commands Check for Updates License Renewal Exit First from the Portlock Storage Manager Main Menu select Image Commands by highlighting it and pressing ENTER to continue Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 19 Image Commands 20 Image ent m ll Image a single disk drive Create a Sector Image of a disk drive Create a Sector Image of a partition Create a Sector Image of a disk region Press ESC to exit From the Image Menu you have several options 1 Image Entire System 2 Image a single disk drive 3 Create a sector image of a disk drive 4 Create a sector image of a partition 5 Create a sector image of a disk region NOTE Choose to Create a Sector Image when you would like a bit for bit image This command is most commonly used for data recovery purposes and also to backup a failing drive partition or region errors and all Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Status DH PH Partition or Volume Type This brings up a status screen revealing all items on the server that can be imaged These items can either be volumes or partitions If you do not see a volume NSS Pool or DOS partition that you expect make sure that you have the correct device drivers loaded By default Portlock Storage Manager images all server pa
28. n of NDS objects which in a single server tree can be okay but please consult your backup software manual for information regarding this Cloning a Server This method is used when you are upgrading the hardware for your server In this case you would use Portlock Storage Manager to make an image of the server so that you can restore it onto your new server The only consideration is that once the image is restored to the new server you may have to modify the server so that it supports the new disk controller and NIC Network Interface Card before your users will be able to login to the server Please consult the manuals that came with your new hardware to ensure that you have the correct drivers loaded for the disk subsystem under NetWare Upgrade of Hard Drives This 1s the simplest solution for upgrading your server All you have to do is make an image of your server take out the existing drives install the new and then restore the Portlock Storage Manager image resizing the volumes as appropriate Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 5 Image Commands Multiple Server Environments The main consideration in a multi server environment is that you must consider the implications to NDS Novell Directory Services NDS renamed as Novell eDirectory with version 8 is a dynamic heirarchical database that contains all object information for your network such as user ids and passwords NDS is a dynamic database that contains all obje
29. ng Variable Length records by pressing ENTER to continue 36 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Image Status for Volume SY3S Volume Mame Essen Complete Block Size 65 556 bytes Elapsed Time Volume Si n O56 ME Estimated Time Lett l Segment Coun a e P Hd ct Imaged Le mu m Ss Written Ly jj m uu EL Compression Hatia Performance Free Iw ct D ct Al n m OU APRNTIIM DLTyVoOoOO Image Pro E o v Tape Mode Wariahle Length Media Type DLTtape IV Density 35 0 GE Driwe Hours 156 An Image Status screen will transpire for each of the partitions or volumes selected As you can see there is an abundance of useful information contained on the actual progress screen such as information on the volume being copied Percent Complete Elapsed Time Estimated Time Left Performance in Kilobytes per second a copy progress indicator bar and a few others The bottom of the screen shows you the status of the Image process ATG gt Wolume SYS Xo lume BRU rng Wo lime This status screen will appear informing you that the image process was a success for our three selected items Press ESC or ENTER to close the screen Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 37 Image Commands Write Image to a CD DVD Recorder For a list of supported DVD Recorders please go to http www portlock com dvd htm This command allows you to
30. o name the new volume and continue Backup Compression Data Shredding Times to shred di Directory Quotas Modified File List Salvaqe Files 2nap2lhot Fi User Space lush Files This screen will allow you to make changes to the volume properties In this example no changes have been made Select Create and press Enter and continue Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 11 Image Commands Logical Volume Information oS m i a E di m rt Sys S1 m E A fa EF Supe Ew Mount ed No DOS Long M 5 d n Ho FE gt nm I one 76 G Ao ll 16 HME Jul 1 z ub Jul 1 2005 Herer Next you will be asked if you want to encrypt the volumes Select No and press Enter Logical Volume Information Jul 1 005 Jul 1 005 Herer i p K omm EXE p Next select the SNAPSHOT pool created earlier Press Insert to create the new volume in the SNAPSHOT pool Press Enter to continue 12 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands SMWAP SHOT Supervisor n im Vi tom ot La T TTE d m Im m I a E npm I i zum T p m t ay None Pr m da L ph Jul 1 005 Jul 1 z005 Merer t t p d i m tb fr Wow m p E fo Here you see the new SNAPSHOT volume created in the SNAPSHOT pool Press Esc to exit Select Yes and press Esc to exit NSS Management Utility Portlo
31. olumes will be dismounted and the NSS Pools will be deactivated Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 23 Image Commands 24 Storage Manager can save the image to several types of destinations File This can be a normal file on a NetWare volume or a DOS partition TCP IP A data stream can be sent using TCP IP to another computer The other computer must he running either Image Manager or Storage Manager Tape The image can he written to an IDE or SCSI Tape Drive FIP The image can be read from a file on an FIP Server Select Image Destination a disk file TCP IP link tape drive CD DUD Recorder n FIF server Press ESC to cancel From the Select Image Destination menu you must determine where you want the image to be written Five destinations are supported 1 Disk File 2 TCP IP Link 3 Tape Drive 4 CD DVD Recorder 5 FTP Server For this example we will select Write image to a disk file and press Enter This can be a normal file on a NetWare volume or a DOS partition Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Compression Image Creation February 2005 12 56 1H gt Enabled Image File Options x Auto name image files Cimage img image 661 image B2 gt gt Ask for new filename when the image file is full x Split image files at 2686 HB 1 ME 1 660 066 bytes Wait after each image file change HE Cancel NE Help 4 Press ESC to cancel An options sc
32. pport block mode This is not an issue as all modern SCSI tape drives support Variable Length Mode It provides better tape capacity and higher performance Portlock Storage Manager writes to a SCSI tape drive using a 32 768 byte block size This block size was chosen to maximize performance and tape capacity Portlock Storage Manager will write to a tape until the Early Warning of End of Media is detected Then a filemark is written to the tape and the tape is rewound Then the cycle repeats itself with a new tape until all data to be imaged has been written to tape This allows an image to be spanned across multiple tapes Portlock Storage Manager encodes header information while writing to tape This header information ensures that data written to tape can be verified when read back If compression is enabled additional information is written to ensure the validity of the uncompressed data Storage Manager can sawe the image to sewers types of destinations File This can be a normal File on a NetWare wolume or a DOS partition TCP IP data stream can be sent using TCP IP to another computer The other computer must he running either Image Manager or Storage Manager Tape image can be written to an IDE or SCSI Tape Drive 4 Press ESC to exit From the Select Image Destination screen select the option to Write image to a tape drive The image can be read from an IDE or SCSI tape drive Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 3
33. rage Manager User Manual A Image Commands 42 Compression Image Creation February 7 2665 13 21 27 gt Enabled Image File Options Auto name image files Cimage img image 681 image HH2 gt gt Ask for new Filename when the image file is full x Split image files at 2HHHB HB 1 HB 1 668 600 bytes Wait after each image file change JE Cancel ME Help icine USSR ere tre Ee eS The Image Option screen appears having several selectable options pertaining to the image being created The first option is Compression You can choose to Enable or Disable compression Enabling compression will create smaller file sizes but will take longer to image and restore Disabling compression will allow for faster imaging and restoring but result in larger file sizes If you would like to write images to a NetWare partition and have Portlock Storage Manager auto name each file after the first one specify Auto name image files field Auto naming of image files will cause Portlock Storage Manager to start writing with the name of the image file that you specify If you specified an image file name of nwserver img and the file size limit is reached a new file is created with a suffix of 000 e g nwserver 000 As each file fills a new file is created e g nwserver 001 etc Portlock Storage Manager will Ask for a new filename when the image file is full If the disk runs out of space then you will be prompted for
34. reen appears having several selectable options pertaining to the image being created The first option you are given 1s compression which can either be enabled or disabled Enabling compression will create smaller file sizes but will take longer to image and restore Disabling compression will allow for faster imaging and restoring but result in larger file sizes The second option box is image file options They are 1 Awto name image files which by selecting will name the files with an increasing numeric extension for each image file such as 001 002 and so on 2 Ask for new image file name when the image file is full Enabling this option will automatically split the entire image file into 2000 MB segments 3 Split Image Files at 2000 MB this value can be changed which by enabling this option will automatically split the entire image file into 2000 MB segments 4 Waitafter each image file change by enabling the fourth option will pause the process after each image file change Since all the choices are pertinent to our example we will press Enter to continue vx NOTE Portlock Storage Manager supports limiting the size of each image file to i gt any size in multiples of 1 000 000 bytes If you want to create an image that is limited to 600 MB for writing to a CD ROM specify a size of 600 in the Split image files at 600 MB field If you want to use removable media and you want to exchange the media when full specify Wait after e
35. riginal Main Menu 28 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Writing an Image to a TCP IP Link Portlock Storage Manager supports sending an image over a TCP IP link The machine that is running on the other end of the TCP IP link can be Portlock Storage Manager running in Restore Mode which implements server to server cloning The other end of the TCP IP link can also be Portlock Image Manager located in the same directory as Portlock Storage Manager IMAGEMGR NLM which can receive data from TCP IP and write it as a disk file or write it to a SCSI tape drive The latter supports a multi server environment with only one SCSI tape drive When using Portlock Storage Manager on two servers one executing the Image Server command and the other server executing the Restore Server command you can clone servers at very high speeds With 100 Megabit full duplex Ethernet speeds of 7 Megabytes per second are easily achieved You can even use an Ethernet Cross over cable to minimize network traffic on your backbone Portlock Storage Manger has been written with special performance features for high speed tape drives such as the SDLT which can write at a sustained 11 Megabytes per second With the increased size of disk drives R AID arrays classic file by file backup methods are just too slow Storage Manager can save the image to several types of destinations File This can he a normal file on a NetWare volume or a DOS p
36. rtitions and volumes To skip an item scroll the highlighted bar down and then press the F5 function key which will alternatively enable or disable an item Press Enter to continue Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 21 Image Commands Status DH PH Partition or Wolume Type Cancel image command A confirmation screen will appear Choose the option Continue and image selected items and press Enter to continue At this time only the volumes that are to be imaged will be dismounted This is done to prevent data from being changed during the imaging process Purge v limes betore image You will then be asked if you woul like to purge your volumes if there are volumes that are present 19 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands storage Manager will now deactivate Pool SYS Al volumes on this pool will be dismounted Deactivate Pool SYS nmi Exam You will then be asked to dismount the volumes or deactivate the NSS Pools that you have selected to be imaged Press Enter on continue to proceed The SYS volume is being dismounted The Console Logging CCONLOG module is loaded The Console Logging should be unloaded Console Logging needs to be unloaded Jn CONLOG Do not unload CONLOG NLM If you are imaging the SYS volume you will be asked to unload certain NLMs that may try and write to the SYS volume while the imaging process is underway Once this has completed the v
37. ssues to consider When you image a server it is basically a snapshot of the whole server at the time of imaging Based on this it would be best to dismount all of the volumes on the server before you start the imaging process This will then halt any changes on the server from occurring to ensure that an exact copy of the server is made When the imaging process is complete you should remove the network cable from the back of the old server to ensure that if the server is accidentally rebooted it cannot attach to the network and cause problems for the users and NDS 6 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands If the hardware that you are upgrading to is similar you may not need to make any changes You will need to ensure that any new drivers are loaded for the server to be able to load NetWare such as disk device drivers and NIC Network Interface Card Without these loaded the server may boot to a NetWare server prompt without loading any volumes or if the server boots not all services may be available if the server cannot communicate to the network correctly Once you have loaded any new device drivers the server will boot up fine and any changes that have been made in NDS while you were performing this process will be sent to the server Upgrade of Hard Drives This is much the same as the procedure outlined in the Cloning a Server section You need to make the same considerations in regards to NDS and dismounting of
38. t MB 1 FAT1I6 CNHLOCALVUOL amp EB Clusters 2 NetWare 6 Master Partition Table al NetWare 6 S YS H ZHB1 HB 3 NetWare 6 Master Partition Table al NetWare 6 POLI P UUL H 2HBHHH MB You then must select the drive that you wish to be imaged status DH PH Partition or Volume Type H EB Clusters 49394 H 2 WSS Pool 5Y35 2 HH1 MB 3 WSS Pool VOLiI POOL z7 HHH HB A list of objects on that drive will be presented to be imaged From here the same commands for the image location are the same as mentioned previously in this chapter Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 51
39. u that the Image File Size Limit has been reached Highlight one of two options Continue with next image file or insert new media or Cancel image command and press Enter P NOTE An Image Status screen will appear for each of the partitions or volumes selected The bottom of the screen shows you the status of the Image process Dr Pa Type TT JetcWNare Volume SY 1 965 WE Met Ware volume HNW5STYZ 1 000 HB NetWare Volume BACEITTIP T63 MB This status screen will appear informing you that the Image Process was a success Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 49 Image Commands Image a Single Disk Drive This command allows you to make an image of a single drive in your server This will image all of the volumes and Pools on the drive to a designated location as mentioned previously in this chapter If a drive contains a segment of a Pool or a Volume then the whole Pool or Volume is imaged as part of this image regardless of which other drive the other segments of the object being are imaged Mage SELES SSE ME a s e disk k drive Create a Sector Image of a disk drive Create a Sector Image of a partition Create a Sector Image of a disk regi To image a disk drive go under the Image Commands and then choose Image a single disk drive and press Enter to continue 50 Portlock Storage Manager User Manual Image Commands Device 1 LIDE 8 6 UtHrare Virtual IDE Hard 8 189 MB Partition Type Mirrored Offse
40. volumes If you are also changing the disk controller you will need to add the device driver so that NetWare can mount the volumes Deployment of New Servers into an Existing Environment If you are making an image of a server so that you can use it to deploy new servers you can image the server and make a template Once this image has been created you will need to restore it to a temporary server on an isolated LAN and then remove NDS from it and change both the Novell Server Name and the ServerID to be something unique Failure to do this could cause issues for your production LAN Reboot the server and use Portlock Storage Manager to image the server This image can then be used as a template for new server deployments Portlock Storage Manager User Manual 7 Image Commands Preparing to Image a NetWare Server Step 1 DECIDE what you want to image You may only want to archive a single volume a set of volumes or an entire server Step 2 VERIFY that the partitions and volumes are free from logical errors Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 DOS partitions run SCANDISK on each DOS partition NetWare Traditional volumes run VREPAIR on each volume NetWare NSS volumes Pools run nss verify volume or Pool name for each volume VERIFY that Directory Services has no errors Ignore for NetWare 3 x Run DSREPAIR on the server DECIDE if you want to purge the NetWare volumes Purging volumes reduces the time to
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