Hi Tim,
Try StBernard Software's Open File Manager for NetWare.
I believe we had a customer running it in Switzerland, and they were
happy with it.
StBernard Software, if not mistaken, are the ones making some, if not
all, of Legatos recommended Open File Managers.
Best Regards.
/JC
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 18:00 -0600, Tim Mooney wrote:
> All-
>
> While communicating with Legato support about the NetWare (really any
> pre-v6 client) restore issues at 7.1.3, we were informed that the bundled
> SNAPSHOT.NLM was no longer supported by Legato, as of the 4.22 NetWorker
> for NetWare client pack.
>
> That NLM is what was used for backing up open files on our NetWare
> clients, in particular GroupWise. Without SNAPSHOT.NLM, we need to find
> some other way to back up open files.
>
> First, does anyone know where this "de-support" was announced? We've been
> unable to find anything about the end of support for SNAPSHOT.NLM in any
> Legato documentation or on the web site.
>
> Second, what are other sites doing for open file support, since
> SNAPSHOT.NLM is no longer supported? In particular, how are people doing
> GroupWise backups? There's a new GroupWise flag (or perhaps it's a
> separate NLM, I forget) for TSAFS that's supposed to allow backups of
> open GroupWise files, but Legato has also indicated that TSAFS shouldn't
> be used with the NetWorker 4.22 client. Legato still recommends using
> TSA600, until they can make a susequent client work with TSAFS.
>
> How are other sites handling this? We know a true V7 NetWorker client is
> coming, probably late in 2005, and we also know that Novell is making more
> of their products (like GroupWise) available under Linux, but we can't
> wait 6-12 months for either of those two options. We need to have
> reliable backups of open files on NetWare *now*.
>
> Any suggestions, comments, or even commiseration appreciated,
>
> Tim
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