Re: [Networker] Networker + Novell SuSE + NSS ?
2009-08-28 16:39:42
On 29/08/2009, at 01:22 , Len Philpot wrote:
I'm not a Novell guy, but since I backup Netware clients this is
relevant
to me. One of our CNEs asked if Networker supports NSS (I'm told
this is a
Novell filesystem) on SuSE Linux. We're still using NLM-based
Netware at
the moment (on NSS, so it obviously works there), but we don't know
about
SuSE.
Any experience with it?
It is supported - check the software compatibility guide. There are
some caveats - I believe, for instance, that the way that NSS stores
permissions attributes in a consolidated xml file in the root of the
filesystem means that NetWorker will recover the file(s) but not the
permissions ... there's a Novell support article about a third party
app that can be used to backup & restore file permissions on Linux
however. (I could be out of date on this one, I've only done a cursory
search.)
FWIW, we also have an open escalation with EMC which is being actively
worked on to bring recovery support into NetWorker on OES for NetWare
backups, on the basis that companies that migrate from NetWare to OES
will want to be able to recover their old files onto their new machines.
Cheers,
Preston.
--
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http://www.enterprisesystemsbackup.com
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