Jerry Lawson queries:

>I was working with a customer this past week, and they were doing large
>restores of a NetWare Server as a throughput test.  In short, they were
>restore whole volumes at a time, and the typical restore time was measured in
>hours.  While they were satisfied with the throughput overall, they wondered
>if there was a way to automate the command entry, so that they could leave the
>(exciting) console and not have to worry about being there when one restore
>completed, so that they might start the next one.  My first thought was a
>macro, but they only are available for Admin clients.  Then we thought about a
>NetWare .NCF file, but the problem here was that ADSM has a prompt at the end
>of each command (press any key to continue) that stops the process anyway.
>
>Has anyone else come across a way to avoid the delay, and automate the command
>entry process on NetWare?

The ADSM V2 R1 NetWare client has a new command available called MACRO. Guess
what it does?   :-)

You can find more information on it in the "Using the Novell NetWare Backup-
Archive Client" manual. You should also be able to find it in the online help
screens (type HELP from the ADSM NetWare client command line).

As to avoiding the "press any key to continue" messages: try using the
NWWAITONERROR option. It can be either YES or NO. The default is YES. If you
set it to NO, you won't see the "press any key to continue" message. However,
this means that if a legitimate error (sic) occurs, you won't see the ADSM
screen for it, since the "press any key to continue" will be suppressed.

Andy Raibeck
ADSM Level 2 Support
408-256-0130