Imaging SQL 7

I am almost embarrassed to post this, but I have an NT4 sp6 machine running
SQL 7. the machine is as old as the software and I am concerned at some
point I will not be able to recover this machine. The reason for this is
that the application that uses SQL is an old legacy application that will be
replaced with in the next year, but it is not supported any longer, and no
one has any idea how to reinstall it, this was done before my time. Any ways
it is a critical reporting tool and is used daily. I was hoping that someone
out there knows of a way that I could image the server and restore the image
to a diffrent hardware, or even to a virtual machine. Most everything that I
have looked at supports imaging NT4 but not restoring the image to diffrent
hardware, or to a virtual machine. I am posting this hoping someone else may
have found a solutionYou are trying to relocate the SQL Server or the entire application? If it's
just SQL server, you can install 7.0 on a new server, and deatch and attach
the databases.
But I think you should try put it into virtual machine; we did for few older
servers. I can't personally say of issues because just SQL Server guy, but
nothing went horribly wrong for us.
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Mohit K. Gupta
B.Sc. CS, Minor Japanese
MCTS: SQL Server 2005
"Schuml" wrote:
> I am almost embarrassed to post this, but I have an NT4 sp6 machine running
> SQL 7. the machine is as old as the software and I am concerned at some
> point I will not be able to recover this machine. The reason for this is
> that the application that uses SQL is an old legacy application that will be
> replaced with in the next year, but it is not supported any longer, and no
> one has any idea how to reinstall it, this was done before my time. Any ways
> it is a critical reporting tool and is used daily. I was hoping that someone
> out there knows of a way that I could image the server and restore the image
> to a diffrent hardware, or even to a virtual machine. Most everything that I
> have looked at supports imaging NT4 but not restoring the image to diffrent
> hardware, or to a virtual machine. I am posting this hoping someone else may
> have found a solution|||Just found this ...
http://search.techrepublic.com.com/search/Microsoft+Virtual+Server+and+Microsoft+Windows+NT+4.0.html
Might find it interseting for yaa. Thanks!
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Mohit K. Gupta
B.Sc. CS, Minor Japanese
MCTS: SQL Server 2005
"Schuml" wrote:
> I am almost embarrassed to post this, but I have an NT4 sp6 machine running
> SQL 7. the machine is as old as the software and I am concerned at some
> point I will not be able to recover this machine. The reason for this is
> that the application that uses SQL is an old legacy application that will be
> replaced with in the next year, but it is not supported any longer, and no
> one has any idea how to reinstall it, this was done before my time. Any ways
> it is a critical reporting tool and is used daily. I was hoping that someone
> out there knows of a way that I could image the server and restore the image
> to a diffrent hardware, or even to a virtual machine. Most everything that I
> have looked at supports imaging NT4 but not restoring the image to diffrent
> hardware, or to a virtual machine. I am posting this hoping someone else may
> have found a solution|||Very good Information I think the Virtual route is the way to go, I thought
about the just moving the data, but the unfortunate thing is no one knows how
to load the application thats the sticky part but it sounds like the VSMT
with virtual server is the way to go I will pursue that route.|||Minding firing me a mail when you do this ;-). Our server ops don't tell me
anything, I get the like DBA and ServerOps don't mix >,<. I wish you best
of luck ;-).
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Mohit K. Gupta
B.Sc. CS, Minor Japanese
MCTS: SQL Server 2005
"Schuml" wrote:
> Very good Information I think the Virtual route is the way to go, I thought
> about the just moving the data, but the unfortunate thing is no one knows how
> to load the application thats the sticky part but it sounds like the VSMT
> with virtual server is the way to go I will pursue that route.
>