Re: More on NetWare restores

     I don't think that I am overstating this but: if your interpretation
     is correct - if a selective backup is necessary to backup the VOLINFO
     and the only way to get it all is with a full volume SELECTIVE backup
     - this is unacceptable! Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't this
     mean that the Incremental backup for a Netware server is useless? The
     incremental backup apparently does NOT backup VOLINFO data, VOLINFO
     data could be changed at any time - therefore VOLINFO data should be
     backed up anytime the client is backed up, thus a Selective backup is
     necessary on a daily basis (or weekly or whatever your normal backup
     cycle period is) in place of the incremental backup we had planned to
     run! Again, PLEASE somebody tell me I am wrong.

     Eric Hince
     Moraine Valley Community College
     hince AT moraine.cc.il DOT us


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Subject: More on NetWare restores
Author:  "Dist. Stor. Manager(ADSM) List" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> at
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Date:    4/6/95 3:40 PM


We are trying to clone a Netware server using ADSM and have run into
the infamous problem described by IC08627:

APAR Identifier ...... IC08627      Last Changed ........ 95/02/20
ADSM NETWARE CANNOT DETECT INCREMENTAL CHANGES IN VOLUME RESTRICTIONS.

That is, we are getting messages saying that there is not enough disk
space when we are restoring the files, and clearly this means that the
user's original disk quota, rather than his current disk quota, got
restored to the new server.  We've been around and around on this one
for the past year, and I had thought that to save the VOLINFO data we
needed only to do a selective backup of one file per volume, specifying
the -VOLINFO option.  That appears not to be working, however, and
another reading of IC08627 seems to indicate that we need to do a
selective backup of everything:

  LOCAL FIX:
  to ensure a full backup, issue the following command for each
  volume:   DSMC SEL SYS:\* -VOLINFO.

I'm hoping that isn't the case (or that I don't understand what that
command does).  Does anybody know?

We are specifying the -VOLINFO option on the RESTORE, so that's not the
problem.

Melinda Varian
Princeton University