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Having built quite a number of &quot;clone trees&quot; in the past (copies of all live servers running in an isolated environment, with same IP addresses and a quad-NIC linux box routing between the 4 subnets, providing NTP, DNS etc..), I would recommend you get yourself a copy of Portlock Storage Manager. &nbsp;You can image your servers in double-quick time, then bring them back up as VMs (or on high-spec PCs as I did), tweak the drivers, and you're up and running.<br />

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Having built quite a number of "clone trees" in the past (copies of all live servers running in an isolated environment, with same IP addresses and a quad-NIC linux box routing between the 4 subnets, providing NTP, DNS etc..), I would recommend you get yourself a copy of Portlock Storage Manager.  You can image your servers in double-quick time, then bring them back up as VMs (or on high-spec PCs as I did), tweak the drivers, and you're up and running.


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We want to create a test environment. We would like to duplicate our existing Netware 6.5.7 Servers that are running Groupwise 7.0.2<br />
Can someone recommend a step by step document or TID ?<br />
We are Backing up our Servers with Veritas 12.5 and also using DBCopy.<br />
One of our goals is to confirm backups are actually good, and then to use that duplicated Groupwise System to use as a test to upgrade to Groupwise 8.
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We want to create a test environment. We would like to duplicate our existing Netware 6.5.7 Servers that are running Groupwise 7.0.2
Can someone recommend a step by step document or TID ?
We are Backing up our Servers with Veritas 12.5 and also using DBCopy.
One of our goals is to confirm backups are actually good, and then to use that duplicated Groupwise System to use as a test to upgrade to Groupwise 8.

Novell 6.5.7 Test Environment

Groupware, also known as collaborative software, is a type of application software designed to help people involved in a common task to achieve their goals. Software products such as email, calendaring, text chat, wiki, and bookmarking belong to this category whenever used for group work, usually in a workplace environment (as opposed to a social networking environment). Most popular groupware applications include Contact Management,MS Server Apps, Cloud Computing, Version Control, Chat/IM, Email Software, Conferencing Software, Outlook, Office Suites, Project Management Software, Content Management, Virtualization, and Cloud Services.

Groupware

NetWare is a computer network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. It initially used cooperative multitasking to run various services on a personal computer, using the Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) network protocol. It is hardware-independent, running on any suitable Intel-based PC compatible system, and a wide range of network cards. Products inclue NetWare Directory Services (NDS), a global directory service similar to Microsoft's Active Directory; GroupWise, an email system; ZENworks, an application configuration suite; and BorderManager, a security product. Open Enterprise Server, the current iteration, runs on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.