Allan,

How long is the retention time? Roughly how much Novell data is stored in
your backups?

On 9/22/2011 10:27 AM, "Nelson, Allan" <an AT CEH.AC DOT UK> wrote:

>Hi
>Wonder if anyone has any experience they may be able to share on this...
>
>We are shortly moving our Netware data (on NSS volumes) to Windows.
>All the data is currently backed up using Netware6.5 (on VM's) using the
>Networker client 7.2.1
>
>We need to have some restore capability (just in case) for the next
>couple of years from these Netware NSS volume saves. Note, we're not
>concerned about file permissions being restored, we just may need the odd
>file back now and again.
>
>First thoughts were to set up an old Netware6.5 VM with the Netware
>client installed - doable, but
>Then we thought it might be better if we used something a little more
>'current' such as Netware OES (at least we could keep that up to date).
>We tried this, but it seems we can't browse traditional Netware savesets
>with the Networker Linux client.
>Has anyone ever managed this?
>
>I realise we're possibly in a minority of 1 regarding this query, but if
>anyone has any ideas of the best way forward with this, I'd like to hear
>them.
>Otherwise it's build a traditional Netware6.5 server (and I'm not looking
>forward to that ;-)
>
>Cheers... Allan.
>
>
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