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emjay@execpc.com (Tom Kustner) wrote:

>We had an experience this weekend that caused us to have to recreate a
>NetWare partition and restore from backups.  We're back up and
>running, but we'd like to ask a few questions:

>1.  Can/should we run VREPAIR while the volume is re-mirroring?
>Common sense would say "No", but the vendor said it was OK.

Volumes don't remirror -- partitions do.  So the point is moot.  But
just on general principles I don't think I'd try doing VREPAIR while
remirroring is going on.

>2.  Can/should we ever do restores while the volumes are re-mirroring?
>Again, common sense says "No", but the vendor said it was OK.

Don't see any reason why not.  Again, the volumes aren't remirroring,
the partitions are -- this takes place at a lower level than the
volume and its data.

>3.  If VREPAIR had to be run on a volume and found corruption *and*
>you had to restore the volume, is doing a restore with an overwrite
>option OK, or should we delete the partition, re-create it?  Common
>sense would say "You should delete the volume...", but again...

In this case I vote for deleting the volume and re-creating it before
the restore.

>Pointers to official Novell statements would be appreciated, since up
>until now, I haven't been able to find any documentation on doing this
>kind of stuff.  The FAQ says nothing either (or I completely missed
>it).  Thanks.

I can't remember ever seeing Novell documentation on the questions you
asked.  The answers are more common sense than anything else.


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