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Tay Systems Research (tsr@clark.net) wrote:
> Dennis (richmond@deepcove.com) wrote:

> : I've just heard that when you do a tape backup of a Novell networked 
> : system, that the backup cannot save the settings that Novell has such 
> : as various log scripts and users etc. Is this true? Is it true only for 
> : some tape backups or for all tape backups? And why? This would be 
> : terrible news if my server crashes and I have to start from scratch 
> : recreating users, scripts etc. It also makes no sense.

> Not all tape backup software can backup and restore NetWare's bindery 
> files; these are the files of your user accounts, passwords, etc.  The 
> same also applies to NetWare 4.x -- if you're going to back up a 4.x 
> server that's running on NDS, you want a NDS-compliant backup software.  
> Fortunately, most of the current tape software offerings will do it.

> Regards,

Yes, but in order to restore your system in the event of a disk crash you
have to :
1 - setup dos partition
2 - install netware (and configure mostly)
3 - install and configure your backup/restore software
4 - restore backup

Is there no simple utility that simply backups a volume or partition on a
block-by-block basis ? restoring a system could be so simple that way.

As a service engineer i had several occasions where i had to swap a disk.
It takes often 4 to 8 hours (mostly at night ) to get the system back in the 
original state. Of course, the customer has a backup. But before you can
start restoring the tape, there is the whole procedure of installing netware
finding the driver floppy's for the various scsi controllers and network
cards, configure the system in order to get the network running (for most
server based backup programs you need a workstation!!) etc etc.

So - did YOU ever realize what it takes to get your system back in the air
after a serious disk crash ? 

Joop