Data volume on other server (AREV Specific)
At 17 NOV 2003 12:26:08PM Jim Jefferson wrote:
Arev 3.12, W2K Service on W2K server.
For a special project I need a lot more disk space than exists on our Arev server. I was wondering if I can physically and legally create a data volume on a different server that has the available space? The W2K service won't be on this other server; only REVMEDIA and REVxxx files. Single user access so no concurrency worries. Everything else Arev related remains on licensed server; just want to utilize extra network storage.
Any problems foreseen in copying/restoring an existing volume that has the dicts and files needed already?
Thanks,
Jim
At 17 NOV 2003 12:26PM Gerald Lovel wrote:
I remember encountering a problem with attempting to use DUMP to fix files on a drive other than where AREV was installed, but this may have been with AREV 2.1 and not 3.12.
Gerald
At 17 NOV 2003 12:26PM Jim Jefferson wrote:
Thanks for the info; it appears to work fine.
There must be something in the bang file, as Don surmised, as I had to remove all indexing, delete the !file, and then set up indexing again to get it to work (this for tables already in the volume I copied over as a template).
Found too that even though Arev was not running when I mapped the new drive (with "reconnect at logon"), it could not access the "copied" new volume on that drive letter until I logged off/on. However, before logging off/on I was able to create and access a test volume on this drive, just not the copied volume. Go figure…
Anyway, all is well and I appreciate the advice.
Jim
At 17 NOV 2003 12:26PM Don Miller - C3 Inc. wrote:
I think this will work, although you should be sure to use a legal drive mapping for the other server. I don't think a UNC pointer will work on an attach \\SERVERNAME .. etc. There may be problems with indexing, although my recollection is that AREV 3.x doesn't store the drive designation in the ! (bang) file as as AREV 2.x did. I don't think you can mix/match file server types though (App on Novell with the service and data on an NT server). Be aware, though, that even if the files on the alternate server are not being shared, network locking WILL be enabled since the driver is loaded where AREV.EXE lives).
Don M.