This may be an issue I admit, but I've been told before that the
namespace used when defining a Novell client is for db display only,
that the namespace associated with the Novell volume was actually the
one backed up with the data.  If what you're saying applies to me, what
is the namespace format of mac data?  Basically, what will it look like
when I try to browse the client for files to restore?

Thnaks.

~JK

Tim McMurphy wrote:
> 
> At my previous job we had a bunch of Mac data that caused us problems.
> 
>         When we backed up Macintosh files from the Netware server we had a
> problem with the stupid users who ended their files with a dot (ie.
> filename. ). You could see it from the Win9x/NT computers but couldn't open
> it. Worse was that when you went to restore the file it failed. After
> talking with tech support it was isolated down to a problem with Netware's
> namespace. There was no fix from Novell for a year after we reported the
> problem (fixed in service pack 8a) but the Veritas engineers figured out a
> workaround. Instead of storing the Long namespace info as the default for
> the Netware target in the database use the Macintosh namespace as the
> default. Netbackup keeps all the different namespace info but one has to be
> a default. Once we did that we could restore and not only could we get the
> files back but Netbackup would put the proper filenames in their respective
> spaces! Macintoshes would see "filename.", Win9x/NT would see "filename" and
> actually be able to open it.
> 
> That was under 3.2
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Kennedy [mailto:jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 1:59 PM
> To: Veritas-bu List
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Mac data and NetBackup
> 
> Does NetBackup support Mac data backups?  I have a Novell client
> (really? who'd of thought..) that has macintosh data stored on it and
> accessed by mac clients.  We have restored data when using BackupExec
> but are having no luck with NetBackup.
> 
> Anyone still have mac data that they are backing up with NetBackup?  And
> can you restore it?
> 
> As I understand it the problem is the resource fork.  The data fork
> seems to still be intact but the resource is either not backed up at all
> or is not being restored properly.  I have tried an entire directory
> restore as well as a single file restore.  There is other data mixed in
> with this and it restored fine in both cases.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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