topic Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

[Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

zeroseven0183 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:00:57 GMT

Hi!

We're having a hard time transfering our data from an old server to a new one (HP ProLiant ML530 G6). The old server is configured as Altiris Notification Server (with SQL server settings, etc.) and we would like to migrate everything from it. But the problem is, it has bad sectors. We do not want to manually configure everything from scratch.

We've used HP Norton Ghost, Acronis TrueImage Echo and HP Insight Server but to no avail.

What would you suggest?

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

TTr — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:41:21 GMT

All these disk image copying products do just that, copy the entire image of a disk whether is contains data or not. Based on what you say the bad sectors are in areas where there is no file data is that correct? Otherwise you would have a problem whether you copy the disk image or copy all the files. Have you looked at "robocopy"? You still need to start with a new OS and at the end there will be some file copying needed as well. If the bad sectors have files on them then you really need to look at your backup tapes or rebuild the server environment from scratch.

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

zeroseven0183 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:30:10 GMT

We're thinking of correcting the bad sectors first but we're running out of time.

The three applications would not let us finish the image process because of the bad sectors.

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

zeroseven0183 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:33:20 GMT

Now running HDD Regenerator on the old server and

...wating to see good results

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

MStoumba — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:49:56 GMT

Did you use ghost with switch's? You can ignore bad sectors.

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

zeroseven0183 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:24:22 GMT

We're able to identify the defetive drive and had replaced it.

We will try Ghost with the switches as suggested.

Any more?

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

u84823 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:23:47 GMT

restore from last good backup and buy a server with hardware RAID next time!!!

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

zeroseven0183 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:28:48 GMT

Sorry but we have the HW RAID already

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

u84823 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:34:16 GMT

If there is hardware RAID, why are you seeing bad sectors?

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

artsky — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:49:19 GMT

I am part of the team that is doing the migration and yes, the old ML350 G1 has adaptec 2010s configured as raid-5.

As to why it has bad sectors is a question only the raid/hdd firmware developers can answer as we have searched for similar occurences over the web and cannot find a solution.

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

u84823 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:21:56 GMT

See here: http://h50146.www5.hp.com/lib/doc/manual/workstation/hp_workstation/c00218082.pdf

Might be worth enabling the background check and leaving the server at a startup prompt (i.e. the Windows boot menu) to ensure it's completely idle to enable the check to run.

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

zeroseven0183 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:07:40 GMT

Still working on it.

just an update

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

zeroseven0183 — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:22:00 GMT

[Update]

Working on with Norton Ghost again, now with switches for bypassing bad sectors.

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

zeroseven0183 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:01:44 GMT

Worst comes to worst, we will be manually configuring Altiris Notification Server on the new machine.

Is there a way to know or to have a "map" or a list of all configuration modules of the ANS since what we're going to do is to set up everything from scratch, parallel to the old server.

Any advise?

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

zeroseven0183 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:43:11 GMT

*bump*

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

zeroseven0183 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:48:31 GMT

* bump *

Re: [Migration] Bad Sectors from Source Server

zeroseven0183 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:29:37 GMT

No solution found.