Installing new server

Just used "Netware Migration Wizard 6.0 (1/23/2002)" from Novell to upgrade an old P1 NW4.2 to a new Dell Poweredge 2500 NW5.1. Worked flawlessly. Including directory rights.
http://download.novell.com/sdMain.jsp

If this is just a hardware upgrade then from what I have seen when one of our consultants have upgraded from one piece of tin to another is first, a full good backup of the current box. Build the new box with same OS and same partitions etc but a different name. Use the same backup software. If tape drive units are the same take the tape and merge it into the new box. Making sure you have the right SCSI drivers etc in the DOS partition, do a restore of the whole server. Take the old server off the LAN. When the new server reboots just get to the DOS prompt and amend the autoexec.ncf etc for loading the correct drivers for the new hardware (SCSI/NIC adapters). With the old server off the LAN you will still have a back-out plan available if things do not appear to be right. There are other methods but this is the one I saw in a large corporate environment. Good luck.

See my answer to another question you posted. I didn't know about the similar names there, so you cannot have them up and running at the same time, that is all. I included there info about both transferring NDS (do NOT use backup/restore for that)and trustee rights (you cannot restore trustees until the new server "knozs" the users and groups, so here backup/restore is not a good solution either).

Jim

Another trick that I have used successfully is to install the new server with a different name (and license) and bring them up. Allow them sufficient time to synchronize the tree and then take the old server offline and rename the new one.

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