RE: Clusterrecovery.exe moving data to different disks

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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:01:37 GMT

Hi David,

Thanks for posting!

The clusterrecovery.exe is a resource kit tool and is not supported.
Detailed specification can be referred in the clusterrecovery.chm file
shipped in the resource kit tool pack.

However, I am glad to share some of my understanding.

This clusterrecovery tool is just a tool like dumpcfg and added some user
interface for you to replace the disk in a more convenient way.

It will dump the disk signature of the original disk and write to the new
disk.

It will not change the disk signature of the original disk as it is
supposed to be offline and corrupted.

If you want the original disk to be used again, just reformat it and
connect it back to the cluster as a new disk resource.

Hope this helps.

Please feel free to let me know if you have any further concerns or
questions regarding the issue.

Best Regards,

Jeff Qiu
Microsoft Online Partner Support
MCSE 2k/2k3, MCSA 2k/2k3, MCDBA
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>From: "David Beaven" <technet@ids.ac.uk>
>Subject: Clusterrecovery.exe moving data to different disks
>Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:03:26 -0000
>microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering
>
>Does clusterrecovery.exe change the disk signature of the replacement disk
>array to what is expected in
>HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/Clusdisk/Parameters for the original
>disk as per Q280425 on dumpcfg?
>If so does it also change the disk signature of the original disk array to
>something random if that disk is still present? We want to upgrade the size
>of the disk subsystem and am wonderering whether we need to remove the LUN
>mapping to the old array before running clusterrecovery.exe?
>
>I assume that this can be done with just one node running - when the second
>node comes up it will initialise ok and on fail over will show the correct
>drives letters etc?
>
>Thanks for help on this
>David
>
>
>

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