David, Are you asking how to best backup your NDS structure?
You are correct, you only need to back up NDS from selected servers. We have a primary NDS box and a couple that hold replicas of the domain. Luckily we have never had to restore that structure, our testing has been successfull but painfully slow. So, pick a few servers and put the domain all-local NDS statement in the option file. The Netware admins are responsible for keeping enough valid copies of the tree around. David Longo wrote: > As we were preparing to move Netware clients from TSM 3.7 to 4.2.1.19, we > did a test on one machine. In the process we had to modify the DOMAIN in > dsm.opt file. Reading the Tivoli manual on Netware client it states that NDS > is NOT backed up with DOMAIN All-Local. We then specified NDS: in the > DOMAIN on this test case. As we further investigated, we realized that we > haven't been backing up NDS! > > We have a tree structure here, different machines have access to different > parts of the NDS tree. Also has replication to other machines. We have > primarily Netware 5.1 and moving soon (maybe) to 6.0. We have had a > couple of instances where we restored SYS: but never had to restore NDS. > It would seem we only have to backup NDS on certain servers, not all. > > Has someone some experience in this area? Can you reference a document > that covers this specifically? > > Thanks, > David Longo > > "MMS <health-first.org>" made the following > annotations on 03/05/02 16:44:04 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, >proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is >waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please >immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies >of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, >distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended >recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications >through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely >those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or >opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by >the entity to give such views or opinions. > > ============================================================================== -- Jim Kirkman AIS - Systems UNC-Chapel Hill 966-5884
