Netware bindary

In regards to your questions....

1.  The Bindery is backed up as part of an Incremental backup.  What ADSM
does is to issue a close to the Bindery, followed by an Open (about 2 seconds
later).  This causes the Bindery to be written to disk, so that it can be
backed up.  A word of warning, though - you nust have a NetWare id available
to ADSM that has Supervisor rights.  Also, if all you do is Selective
backups, then you need to also do a "DSMC Selctive Bindery" command to back
up the Bindery.

2.  Good point - I was mildly surprised to see that the default was
tapeprompt=yes in my NetWare manual.  The obvious way to handle that is to
specify TAPEP=NO when the command is issued (from the Autoexec.ncf etc.).

On the other hand, though, I have not seen this in my shop - I recently had a
storage pool fiasco, and had several NetWare servers that did back up to
tape, and I know no one was around to reply to the prompt.  Perhaps the book
is in error, or the option was changed along the way.  I know I did suggest
to development that if the Tapeprompt was unanswered after a reasonable
period of time (like 5 minutes) to make the assumption that it was OK, and
moun thte tape anyway.....

Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT thehartford DOT com


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Subject: Netware bindary
Author:  INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
Date:    9/1/97 4:36 PM


Hi ADSMers!

1) A customer asked me if ADSM saves the Netware 3.12 bindary files.  The
doubt is that these files are in use during the backup.  How is this done?
Is this different in version 4.11 of Netware?

2) How can a backup to tape storage be completely automated if the system
asks for a confirmation of the tape being mounted?  When a backup to tape
starts, the system asks for a confirmation that a tape is mounted, ok? If
there's nobody there, but the tape is mounted, can it be automated?

Thanks a lot!

Rafael J. Goldschmidt
Rafael J. Goldschmidt
Elcano 5039 - (1427) Buenos Aires - Argentina
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