Data Loss If You Install NetWare 5.1 Server Attached to SAN Device
After you install new Netware 5.x server, attached to the SAN (Storage Area Network) device, you might experience the critical situations of data loss. In this case, you may find that your NetWare 5 NSS hard drive volumes are missing. The NSS volumes are reset to “Free Space” in the NWCONFIG.
After this behavior of Novell server, you can not access your valuable data from it and may face the critical nightmare of data loss. To gain access of your data, you need to resolve this problem as quickly as possible. Reason This behavior would take place only if the newly established server is connected to SAN during installation process. The version of the NSS file system, which comes with NetWare 5.x isn’t aware of the shared storage and clustering. It thus assumes that all of the storage devices, that it could see, are local. As a result, during the operating system installation, all of the data from shared storage device is wiped. Thus, you falls in need to overcome this problem and perform Novell Partition Recovery. Resolution While installing the operating system to new server, you should be sure that this is not connected to SAN during installation. Use NetWare 5.1 overlay disk with already applied support pack, for the build. The overlay disk would install the operating system without treating SAN volumes as local volumes. The NSS code into these patches contains the required changes to stop Novell volumes from being removed. o Although, this method is helpful to avoid problems from being occurred in future but can not fix the current problem of data loss. Once the volumes have been stamped as free space, data and information is lost. The only fix of this problem is to perform Novell Partition Recovery. To have easy, automated and smooth Novell Partition Recovery, you should go for a powerful and highly developed Novell Recovery Software such as Stellar Phoenix Novell Data Recovery Software. Phoenix Novell NetWare Recovery Software is an influential tool to scan the affected hard drive, locate your lost volumes and then recover them. It is applicable to most of the Novell operating system versions and supports Novell Recovery from NWFS and NSS file systems.
