Thanks Tim.   It would have been nice if Legato put this in the release
notes with the other limitations.


On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:25:22 -0600, Tim Mooney
<mooney AT DOGBERT.CC.NDSU.NODAK DOT EDU> wrote:

>In regard to: Re: [Networker] Need to confirm steps to upgrade to 6.1.4,...:
>
>>Can you elaborate on the Netwware client issues?
>
>The main issue is LGTpa50711, which is the inability to do a saveset
>recovery for NetWare clients once your server goes to 7.x.  It could make
>a disaster recovery situation a complete failure, especially when you
>couple it with other long-standing issues for the NetWare client.  One
>such issue is that selective recovery (browsing) will fail if you mark
>more than N files for recovery at once.  I don't think Legato's ever said
>what N is, but their recommendation used to be no more than 200,000 files
>at once, if you wanted to be sure that selective recovery will work.
>
>So, even in the best possible disaster situation, if you have a volume
>with e.g. 1 million files, you're looking at a "damned if you do,
>damned if you don't" situation, because
>
>- you can't do a saveset recover
>- you can't do the easy but slow act of marking the top level of the
>  volume for recovery and letting it pick up everything recursively,
>  because the recovery will very likely fail because you've selected
>  too many files.
>
>Your only guaranteed recovery route is to browse and mark files and
>directories in chunks less than N, and repeat that process until you have
>all your data back.  Error prone and very slow -- two things you don't
>want in a disaster situation.
>
>Dmitri Joukovski posted a list (on December 10th, 2003) which contained
>several outstanding NetWare issues.  I know there are others, because I
>have at least one that wasn't in that list.  The only one that really
>affects the 7.x update is LGTpa50711, all the rest are problems already.
>;-)
>
>Tim
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