David,
Are you asking how to best backup your NDS structure?
You are correct, you only need to back up NDS from selected servers. We have a
primary NDS box and a couple that hold replicas of the domain. Luckily we have
never had to restore that structure, our testing has been successfull but
painfully slow.
So, pick a few servers and put the domain all-local NDS statement in the option
file. The Netware admins are responsible for keeping enough valid copies of the
tree around.
David Longo wrote:
> As we were preparing to move Netware clients from TSM 3.7 to 4.2.1.19, we
> did a test on one machine. In the process we had to modify the DOMAIN in
> dsm.opt file. Reading the Tivoli manual on Netware client it states that NDS
> is NOT backed up with DOMAIN All-Local. We then specified NDS: in the
> DOMAIN on this test case. As we further investigated, we realized that we
> haven't been backing up NDS!
>
> We have a tree structure here, different machines have access to different
> parts of the NDS tree. Also has replication to other machines. We have
> primarily Netware 5.1 and moving soon (maybe) to 6.0. We have had a
> couple of instances where we restored SYS: but never had to restore NDS.
> It would seem we only have to backup NDS on certain servers, not all.
>
> Has someone some experience in this area? Can you reference a document
> that covers this specifically?
>
> Thanks,
> David Longo
>
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