Solaris

Thanks again RTM i would like to tell you that DB Server is located on the same machine and i thought that when i restore the full system i will restore it also kindly could you clear this issue for me .
** from your reply i need to ask for a very vital point why Naviscore will not recovered and what is the best thing i can do to backup all things then when restore i will get all things working good again with all pre-configured data .

Basha,

Naviscore is such a finicky collection of software. Just building out the front-ends sometimes takes 2 or 3 tries (with no valid reason why it failed to work on the other tries). Since you have it all on one box, I can't imagine the 'fun' you might be having. It's been around 3 years since I messed with naviscore. We had separate front-ends (3-4 each) and one DB server in production.

We used Legato backup but never restored a full server (even as a test). Restoring from Legato took so long (in those days) that it was easier to just build out another front-end. Plus, we had a Disaster Recovery site that had servers running and waiting so in a way, we were lucky enough not to have to be in a bad situation for long.

As suggested, if you are using Solaris Disksuite (aka SDS / ODS / Sun Volume Manager), then you could drop one side of the mirror, and ufsdump it to tape. Then use ufsrestore on to the same size disks on new server. I would think this would be your best solution as far as a Naviscore server is concerned.

Basha,

I think you guys are not using any DisasterRecovery softwares; IMHO it is really good to have a host-based DR softwares for availing continuance for particularly these kind of critical servers; nobody can afford for losing things built through 8 years (as you said).
I can help you setting up things if you have any DR s/w.

-ilan