Transfer services from one NT4 box to another

[Ramma2]

We have an old NT4 server running our old and out of date billing database application. We have no support for the app or the hardware anymore, and the hardware is very old. So I've built a new NT4 box running on a newer machine to have a backup when and if the first box dies.

There are 2 services that run on the current machine that the database app needs to operate. Is there any possible way for me to figure out what files are associated with these serves, copy them to the new server, and get them running? We have no installation discs for this and no documentation so I'm flying blind here.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[bsobel]

My advice would be to image the system and then boot the image in a virtual machine (Vmware or MS) on the new hardware. This way you have legacy support for the old app (as well as a backup) but don't have to deal with NT4 wasting the new box.

 

[Ramma2]

That sounds like a great idea. What do you recommend for creating an image? I think we have a copy of Notron Ghost around here, or is there something online that I can use?

 

[Ramma2]

Well the image didn't work out so well. There are 3 drives in that server, and it wouldn't let me save the image onto another drive. I tried to create an image with Virtual PC, but that doesn't work on an NT4 box.

What I do have is a copy of the hdd on the new machine, the problem is that the old PC was SCSI and the new is IDE only. NT now freaks out and fails to boot. Still working on it..