Charles R Somogyi wrote:
> 
> Hello All:
> 
> What is the granularity of a NetBackup backup of Netware's NDS?
> Does it only backup the whole tree as a file (and in turn only
> have the ability to restore the entire tree) or can specific
> objects from NDS be restored? We are in the process of evaluating
> NB for backing up our Novell Servers. It was our understanding
> that Backup Exec is better for backing up NDS but we would like
> to stick with NB for our enterprise soloution.
> 
> Charlie Somogyi
> BMS
> Princeton, NJ

I've backed up and restored individual NDS objects in a small test
environment successfully, but don't backup NDS with NetBackup in
production. It actually worked better than I thought. Be warned that xbp
and the restore window in jnbSA don't display the objects correctly,
although you can if you fiddle with the path and depth settings. To
restore them the easiest, use 'bp' from the NetWare console.

You should probably backup NDS the way Novell does it, export NDS to a
file then back that up. I think there's a consensus that backing up NDS
with NetBackup (or any product) isn't the best idea, but I could be
wrong.


RCA
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