Thanks for your reply Jerry. I take it you mean to use the win95 or whatever
client to back up the data as if it were dos file system.
This does not preserve netware trustee rights? Am I following you correctly
here? However these files will be owned and controlled by the user so that
part works.
At 01:51 PM 7/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
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>From: INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
>Date: 7/11/97 12:38PM
>To: Jerry Lawson at ASUPO
>*To: *ADSM-L at SNADGATE
>Subject: Remote Netware client?
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>Tim -
>
>The only way I know of giving them restore authority to NetWare drives is to
>let them back them up. I assume that you are talking about letting them
>restore ONLY their own files. If you have given each user a "personal"
>directory on the netware server, then you could add the appropriate
>include/exclude statements to their own DSM.OPT files, and then they have
>backups of the server.
>
>This is not an "elegant" solution - lots of specific information required in
>the DSM.OPT file. It could be simple, though, if the person can map to a
>specific drive (let's say the "K" drive, and the only mapping this provides
>is to the beginning of the user's own files - no access via K to anyone
>else's files, or to system data, etc. Then you could control the access by
>using a domain statement that said "Domain K: all-local".
>
>Remember that performance when accessing a NetWare drive through another
>client is not pretty. For ADSM to access the file, Netware does the
>conversion to the appropriate format (probably FAT for a DOS based client),
>then the client takes it and sends it to the ADSM server. This means double
>network I/O, plus the overhead for the conversion. If the data is stored as
>compressed, then it must be uncompressed, and then possibly compressed again
>by ADSM.....
>
>I do have a couple of customers who do this, but they were "special cases" who
>needed the ability to gain access to backups quickly, and more importantly, the
>volume was small.
>
>Hope this helps. There is no way I know of to allow direct restores of NetWare
>data by clients other than the netware administrator.
>
>Jerry Lawson
>jlawson AT thehartford DOT com
>
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