Hi Stan
Retention time is going to be 1 year (possibly 2 but we hope not).
On my site there's around 10TB in total on these servers.
I've just built a traditional Netware6.5sp6 server VM, installed the Networker 
client on it and have tested directed recovers (they worked!).
We're not bothered about trustees coming across - we'll sort that out when the 
time comes.  This is intended for small restores of a directory or two, we'd 
never need the full volume after the main servers have gone.
So, I'll probably just keep that Netware VM handy just in case we need it.

I guess one thing we have to watch is when we upgrade our Networker server to 
for example 7.6.2 and that breaks the Netware client (it's working in 7.6.1).
We won't get any help from EMC ;-)

Cheers... allan.  

Allan Nelson
CCS Lancaster
Tel: 01524 595815


-----Original Message-----
From: STANLEY R. HORWITZ [mailto:stan AT temple DOT edu] 
Sent: 29 September 2011 16:16
To: EMC list; Nelson, Allan
Subject: Re: [Networker] Netware restores in years to come...

Allan,

How long is the retention time? Roughly how much Novell data is stored in
your backups?

On 9/22/2011 10:27 AM, "Nelson, Allan" <an AT CEH.AC DOT UK> wrote:

>Hi
>Wonder if anyone has any experience they may be able to share on this...
>
>We are shortly moving our Netware data (on NSS volumes) to Windows.
>All the data is currently backed up using Netware6.5 (on VM's) using the
>Networker client 7.2.1
>
>We need to have some restore capability (just in case) for the next
>couple of years from these Netware NSS volume saves. Note, we're not
>concerned about file permissions being restored, we just may need the odd
>file back now and again.
>
>First thoughts were to set up an old Netware6.5 VM with the Netware
>client installed - doable, but
>Then we thought it might be better if we used something a little more
>'current' such as Netware OES (at least we could keep that up to date).
>We tried this, but it seems we can't browse traditional Netware savesets
>with the Networker Linux client.
>Has anyone ever managed this?
>
>I realise we're possibly in a minority of 1 regarding this query, but if
>anyone has any ideas of the best way forward with this, I'd like to hear
>them.
>Otherwise it's build a traditional Netware6.5 server (and I'm not looking
>forward to that ;-)
>
>Cheers... Allan.
>
>
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