What is your cost versus risk threshold? In general, we never rebuild a server "in-situ". There is just too much possibility of a problem. Even pulling the drives out and using different physical drives there is the risk that when trying to recover by re-inserting the original drives something goes wrong and the drive no longer boots.
If you have some leeway in cost, strongly recommend you build a new server and transition over to it. It takes longer having to move things step-by-step, and make take a little more effort to plan the transition, but each step going forward you have a clear-cut "go back" step. Also, painful as it sounds, planning a transition to a new server forces you to really analyze exactly how everything is running and usually there are a few "undocumented things" that you stumble upon and are glad to find out now before you have a real problem and don't know about that setting or special config change you made months ago and didn't document properly. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Green dfn Systems Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 10:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] O.T. Mailserver Drive Migration best Practices I want to move my main Drive contents (currently on a single drive) to new physical drives (SATA Raid 1). Main (C:) drive contents include: Win2000 Server IMail Declude Sniffer DNS (Mail Service Only) IIS Website (folders are on another drive) If I start from scratch, install OS, Programs, redo settings, copy folders, etc, I fear 2 things. Downtime Forgetting something critical (I'm not as experienced as most of you.) Are there any cloning programs which will handle the windows boot information? Is there a proceedure, or a program any of you would recommend? I'm not asking for detailed step by step instructions, just a tip to a book or website, or gotcha's to avoid from your experiences. Thanks Bill --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
