On other oddity I come across is the /etc/hosts file. Seems we have to play
around with the ordering of the servers entry for servers with an underscore
in the name. If you don't have servers with an underscore in the name, then
there's no problem. If you do, and I have a few (as it was considered a
Novell "best practice" in "the old days"), then you have to reorder the FQDN
and alias names.
For example, you'd have "server_0" setup in the hosts file as:
192.168.1.10 server0.backup.acme.com server_0
In order to do a restore, you'd have to reorder the hosts files as:
192.168.1.10 server_0 server0.backup.acme.com
I'm sure it has something to do with the FQDN and DNS not supporting the
underscore, but needing to reorder it seems odd.
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:34:25 -0500, Matthew Powell <mtpowel AT CLEMSON DOT EDU>
wrote:
>Thanks for taking the time to get back to me on this issue. I really
appreciate it. I was able to back up the Netware servers in question without
having to add anything to the server at all. I just made sure to use the
appropriate userid that the Novell NDS has listed as able to back up the
Netware boxes.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Birkenbach [mailto:tom.birkenbach AT WMICH DOT EDU]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 10:27 AM
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU; Matthew Powell
>Subject: Re: Novell questions
>
>In my testing and backup of NetWare servers (all 6.5x), I've found that that
>SYS:\NETWORKR.INI gets created if it doesn't exist when NETWORKR.NLM is
>exited or the "default server" entry gets updated to whatever NetWorker
>server you had it last pointing to. I was able to successfully startup
>NetWorker without SYS:\NETWORKR.INI. However, my NETWORKR.NCF script loads
>NETWORKR.NLM with the "-s backup_server_name" switch so it doesn't attempt
>to search for or attach to a different NetWorker server.
>
>It is also my desire to migrate from one NetWorker server to another. For
>my Linux, AIX, Solaris and Windows clients, I need them to modify the
>/nsr/res/servers file to recognize both my NetWorker servers. As for
>NetWare, there is no /nsr/res/servers file to modify. I created one to see
>what the client would do. Creating and making changes to this file seems to
>have no impact to the NetWare client. I was able to create the client entry
>in both NetWorker systems and both systems being able to successfully backup
>and recover files for a NetWare client. This tells me that there's nothing
>on the NetWare client that restricts which NetWorker server can back it up.
> I see this as a potential security flaw, but our NetWare servers won't be
>around much longer.
>
>I hope this helps!
>-Tom B.
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