Jeffrey,

     I've done a couple of full Netware server restores and seem to remember
that we didn't lose the printer definitions... I just had one of our Netware
folks either comment out everything that wasn't necessary in the
AUTOEXEC.NCF and rebooting the server (or unloading unneeded NLM's without
rebooting) before taking the last incremental backup prior to the restore.
 Even though all the printer definitions were well documented, this saved a
lot of manual work after restoring the server.

Tim Pittson
pittson1 AT bwmail1.hcc DOT com
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From: owner-adsm-l
To: Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
Subject: Re: Novell QDR SRV and SYS Files
Date: Friday, December 22, 1995 10:10AM

Andy Raibeck writes:

>Since I don't consider these files to be mission critical, I didn't
>make a big deal about it. What is the impact if these files are not backed
>up?

Actually, not much.  The biggest complaint we got was from a department that
had over 50 printers defined on their server.  They were concerned about the
amount of effort it would require to manually rebuild all of the printer
definitions.  I agree with you that if a hard drives suffers a meltdown
you've got more important issues to worry about than a bunch of printers,
but our users still like to worry over details.

Jeff
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