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Re: [ADSM-L] Netware backup restores

2011-06-07 17:39:45
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Netware backup restores
From: Howard Coles <Howard.Coles AT ARDENTHEALTH DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 16:34:46 -0500
No, you can run 1 NetWare server without a license.  For recovery or
whatever purposes.  And, what you're terminating is probably your
enterprise agreement, if you bought the licenses for the servers
(doubtful with anything past NW 4) you can still run the servers for
archival purposes, you just won't have any support with Novell if you
have a problem.


See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE
John 3:16!


-----Original Message-----
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Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 10:11 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Netware backup restores

Stupid question time for which I am pretty sure I know the answer but
must
ask......

We are terminating our Netware license for Netware servers.  So,
effective
July 1, we can not legally have any running/functioning Netware servers.

>From everything I understand (please correct me if I am wrong), you CAN
NOT restore Netware backups to anything other than a Netware server.

So, as far as I am concerned (and have told my last remaining Netware
server admins), any Netware backups after June 30, are mostly useless.
Besides, the contents have been migrated to other Windoz servers.

Yet we still have folks wanting to perform, last final backups of long
dismounted volumes (thus flushed out of TSM, long ago).

Am I correct on this?  Am I missing anything?
Zoltan Forray
TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
Virginia Commonwealth University
UCC/Office of Technology Services
zforray AT vcu DOT edu - 804-828-4807
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