ADSM-L

Re: Restore of Novell NDS

2001-06-28 14:06:38
Subject: Re: Restore of Novell NDS
From: Jim Kirkman <jmk AT EMAIL.UNC DOT EDU>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:07:39 -0400
There are also some updated tsa modules as well, at least for NW5

"Remeta, Mark" wrote:

> I have one thing to say to you.... good luck!
> We have had numerous problems restoring NDS and most of them boil down to
> problems with the NetWare TSA modules. I would say upgrade to the latest TSM
> client you can and test with that. Don't bother with the older ones. Were
> currently having problems restoring NetWare 5.1 and TSM client 4.1.2.16 on a
> 4.1.2.0 TSM server.
>
> If you want more details email me off-list.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian CTR Englert [mailto:Brian.CTR.Englert AT TC.FAA DOT GOV]
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:20 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Restore of Novell NDS
>
> To all,
>
> Has anyone ever restored the entire NDS tree in a Netware 4.11 environment
> using
> an old ADSM client (3.0......)  and the server is running ADSM version
> 3.1.2.20?.  I am testing NDS restores and,
>
> 1) I do not get trustee rights back on individual user restores. Only the
> home
> directory comes back but any rights to other network files or directories
> seem
> to fail.
>
> 2) If I delete a test Container with Leaf Objects in it, upon restore of the
> container none of the leaf objects come back. I must manually then restore
> each
> leaf object. Is this how ADSM restores the NDS? My command to restore the
> container is    res dir:.o=faatc.ou=adsmback   from here I then need to
> restore
> each user individually, is there a way to drill down farther with one
> command
> without restoring the entire NDS.
>
> 3) Also my nightly's of NDS are still not going off. We have about 10
> Netware
> servers I tweaked a few of the dsm.opt files but they all still failed. Do
> they
> all need to be identical? I keep getting Invalid Drive Specification 'NDS'.
> In
> one OPT file I had as my Domain statement
>
>     DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL DIR
>
> and I still got an NDS error.  The other OPT files have
>
>     DOMAIN    APP: SYS: USER: NDS:
>
> Unfortunatley need to test on our production LAN so I cant restore the
> entire
> NDS, I limited to only specific testing. If anyone can help I would greatly
> appreciate it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Brian Englert
>
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Jim Kirkman
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