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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:	OLD ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:	Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:	IOSG::PYE

Created:	Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4343
Total number of notes:	18308

283.0. "Restoring a test system. How to make it work?" by CGOOA::IUS (Donald V. Ius - DTN: 638-6927) Thu Mar 19 1992 18:53

    I have a customer who is trying to make a test copy of his ALL-IN-1
    system on a separate development node.  He made a backup of the live
    system and restored it to the test system.  He has not been able to get
    it to work though.  I will be going in there next week to look at it
    and see if I can get it to work.  Does anybody have any suggestions as
    to what I might check?  I haven't done any real work with ALL-IN-1 for
    several years now so I would appreciate any pointers anybody can give.
    
    Thanks for your time,
    
    Don I.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
283.1	A few clues would be nice	BUFFER::VICKERS	Winners take action not keep score	`Fri Mar 20 1992 06:10`	13
	The obvious thing to suggest is for the customer to elaborate as to what doesn't work. What are the error messages, if any? Are there errors when the startup procedure is executed? The most likely error condition would be that the disks in [.DATA_SHARE]A1CONFIG.DAT do not exist or are not the same logical names that exist on the new node. The easiest way to correct this is to go onto the running system and change a copy of the file (make a backup copy) of A1CONFIG to conform to the environment on the new node. Good luck, don
283.2	Dr., My friend is sick, can you prescribe something? :-)	IOSG::TALLETT	Mit Schuh bish hi	`Fri Mar 20 1992 08:30`	1

283.3	Good luck!	UTRTSC::BOSMAN	We're just sugar mice in the rain	`Fri Mar 20 1992 10:00`	4
	Done this alot of times, but I always (have to) use the trail-and-error method. Actually one time I wrote a scenario-script for it (V2.1 � V2.3). Good luck, Sjaak.
283.4	A magic pill?	CGOOA::IUS	Donald V. Ius - DTN: 638-6927	`Fri Mar 20 1992 17:23`	5
	Thanks for your replies. I wish I had more to go on too. I assume that I'll find out what the "real" problem is when I get there. Looking at the logical disk assignments is a good place to start. /dvi
283.5	Likely to be several things - He said gloomily!	IOSG::PYE	Graham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's Apprentice	`Fri Mar 20 1992 17:55`	9
	As well as A1CONFIG that Don mentions in .1, if that's wrong, then it's likely that all the PROFILE records will be worng too, and also the two data files that define the SDAF and shared area locations - They're called something like OA$SHARED_DAF_MASTER.DAT and OA$SHARED_DIRECTORY_MASTER.DAT. Good luck, Graham