--> You can't restore the Novell server at the central site because it won't
be part of the Novell tree

I would argue against this.
-       The server needs a connection to other servers to join the tree
during instalation process. If you have a connection (intended for TSM
backup) between the plant and the central site then you definitely have a
connection for NDS tree. And I suspect Master Replicas reside in the
central site so you will use LAN instead of WAN for NDS.
-       you have the posibility to restore the NDS replicas on the new
server. Thus it will contain what the old one had. If the old one was part
of the tree new one ought to as well.
-       maybe that Novell guru had bad experience with some other product.
Ask him can he perform that same restore using Novell tools. Later try to
explain that TSM client is using same operating system interface.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






John Schneider <jdschn AT ATTGLOBAL DOT NET>
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20.11.2002 18:24
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        Subject:        Novell bare-metal restore


Greetings,
    I have a customer with a unique challenge.  Maybe it's not, but it
seems to be to me because I am not a Novell guy.  They are considering
implementing TSM in their environment to back up a bunch of Novell
servers that are out in remote plants with real slow links, like 256KBs.
 The servers have sometimes 300-600MB of changed data a night.  With
decent compression, we may be able to back them up overnight, since they
would permit 5pm to 8am as the acceptable backup window.
    The challenge is when one server is replaced, either because it dies
or is replaced with new hardware.  The Novell servers have about 40GB of
disk space, so there is no way they could restore across the slow link.
 Our thinking is to restore the server to a server at the central
location where the TSM server is, so the restore could be accomplished
more quickly, then ship the restored server down to the remote site.  My
customer's Novell guy says this won't work, because of the way Novell
trees work.  You can't restore the Novell server at the central site
because it won't be part of the Novell tree(?!), and all the file
permissions and ownerships will be wrong.
    Can somebody tell me what resources I should read to understand how
to do this, or can share with me your methodology to do a bare-metal
restore of a Novell server?  I figure that surely by now a method has
been derived.
    Thanks in advance,

John Schneider

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