DaZZa wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Andrew Dorrell wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know whether it is possible (how to) backup a Novell server
> > to a tape drive hosted by a linux machine? Its a Novell 4.11
> > (IntranetWare) server so there are some issues I am not familiar with
> > regarding NDS.
>
> Yuck! That's _ugly_.
Hmmm... I know :-( Would it be any easier if the Novell machine hosted
the Tape? This can be done, but I really don't want to have to buy
extra software just for backup
> You could use Netware NFS, export the volumes to the Unix box, then just
> back them up using tar, or cpio or similar.
I believe I can use mars-nwe / ncpfs to mount the Novell volume native.
But whether the backup would be useful for recovery is the real
question.
> > Also Is it possible to do NDS backups to a mounted Novell volume (eg one
> > exported from the linux box using marw-nwe).
>
> Not easily, and it really requires some expensive software {I.E. ArcServe
> or BackupExec} to get reliable backups of the NDS. DSREpair will export
> the DS to a text file, from memory, but it's ugly trying to put it back.
Yes... I think you have to have the admin account setup manually in
exactly the same state as it was on the backup or things fail. How
could they make backup so damn complicated?
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