On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Andrew Dorrell wrote:
> > > Does anyone know whether it is possible (how to) backup a Novell server
> > > to a tape drive hosted by a linux machine? Its a Novell 4.11
> > > (IntranetWare) server so there are some issues I am not familiar with
> > > regarding NDS.
> > Yuck! That's _ugly_.
>
> Hmmm... I know :-( Would it be any easier if the Novell machine hosted
> the Tape? This can be done, but I really don't want to have to buy
> extra software just for backup
Depends on your definition of "easier". Backup Exec and ArcServe
definitely run on the Novell server, and work reasonable well - my
preference is for BE, because Arcserve's support sucks.
However, it's extra software, yes.
> > You could use Netware NFS, export the volumes to the Unix box, then just
> > back them up using tar, or cpio or similar.
>
> I believe I can use mars-nwe / ncpfs to mount the Novell volume native.
> But whether the backup would be useful for recovery is the real
> question.
Nope. That only works if the Netware partition/volume is in the _same_ box
as your Linux machine. Netware doesn't "export" volumes, as such, except
via NFS.
> > Not easily, and it really requires some expensive software {I.E. ArcServe
> > or BackupExec} to get reliable backups of the NDS. DSREpair will export
> > the DS to a text file, from memory, but it's ugly trying to put it back.
>
> Yes... I think you have to have the admin account setup manually in
> exactly the same state as it was on the backup or things fail. How
> could they make backup so damn complicated?
Basically, a properly setup DS will never _need_ restoring, because you'll
have read/write replicas of all your important DS stuff scattered around
the place, and a disaster wouldn't take out your master as well as your
replicas unless it was a huge drop out.
For examples, my current NDS tree has replicas of the root partition in
Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Replicas of the other major partitions are
scattered around sydney offices. It'd need a bomb to blow up 3 offices in
Sydney, two in Melbourne and one in Brisbane before we lost the NDS
irrecoverably.
DaZZa
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