Miles,
Unfortunately, the Novell TSAs are not cluster aware. Therefore, you
will windup with multiple filespaces as volumes failover to other nodes. At
this time, there is no way around this. However, there is light at the end
of the tunnel in the form of NetWare 6. I have been told that in service
pack 1 the entire backup infrastructure has been re-written with cluster
awareness to handle just such a situation. I have also been told that these
changes will be pushed down to NetWare 5.1 in the same time frame (end of
1st or beginning of 2nd qtr.). Until then, we'll all have to deal with this.
If I can be of any assistance, please let me know.
Seth Forgosh
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From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:15 AM
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Subject: Backing up Novell Clusters
Hi folks, I could really use some help answering this question:
With specific regards to #4, the Novell servers are set up (so I'm told I
don't administer them) in a cluster with many 'shared' volumes, and of
course only one node has a volume 'online' at a time. But during a failover
situation a node may have a volume mounted that it does not normally.
For example servers S1 and S2 and volumes V1 and V2 - S1 normally has V1 and
S2 normally has V2. Now the problem is that during a failure over from S1 to
S2, V1 will not be mounted on S2. And if I run a backup of S2 it will backup
V1, which not really what I want. S2 will backup *all of* V1, instead of
performing an incremental.
The 'vritualnodename' parameter, according to the documentation, seems to
work only with restores. No?
The question is:
So if V1 normally gets backed up on S1, and V1 moves to S2, how do I perform
an incremental backup of V1 on S2?
Thanks Miles
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Some hints ( Novell 5 )
1) User with full administrator rights
2) entry in dsm.opt
DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL NDS
4) nothing special known to us - we are running a cluster, backup each node
as a seperate node ( and use virtualnodename if necessary )
hope this helps a little
herfried
Miles Purdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 26.11.2001 19:28:03
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Subject: Experienced Admin needs help with Novell
Hi folks,
I currently administer an AIX TSM server and clients, now I need to backup
Novell servers. I would appreciate some help with some general questions:
-Novell seems to need a user and password to run the scheduler as, what do
people use?
-How do I backup up NDS?
-Any special excludes?
-What's the best way to handle nodes when they are in a cluster?
Any other gottcha's? I did fix the TSA.
Thanks Miles
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Farm Income Programs Directorate
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