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** Let me try to answer a few of these..... 
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In <45eoe5$4ub@ionews.io.org> attila@io.org (Attila Fust) writes: 
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>The following questions are the type of questions that are
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>hard to find in the Netware manuals and literature but, never-
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>theless, they are very important.  If you have the answers to
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>these questions please email them to attila@io.org (and do
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>a follow-up post if you think it is helpful for others).
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>Questions
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>Backup in 3.1x
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>1.  Where are trustee rights stored (in the bindery??)?
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>    How are netware file attributes stored (in the fat??)?
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** I'm not 100% positive, but I think you're right
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>2.  When a partial restore is done will the trustee
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>    of the particular file(s) be the person doing
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>    the restore?
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** That depends on the package doing the restore: I've seen Arcserve
recreate files with a "owner" (seen with NDIR) of a user ARCSERVE (the
ID we set up for Arcserve to attach to servers when doing
backup/restores.)  Some other restores (probably full restores)
maintained the original owner's rights.
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>3.  When you do a partial restore (eg. 5 user files)
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>    are the netware file attributes restored 
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>    automatically?  
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*** again, sorry for being vague, but it will depend on the
backup/restore app and how you specify the action to be done.
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>4.  Is the following procedure the correct method for
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>    restoring a file server from a complete disk failure:
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>	i)  Replace hard disk (ideally the same type and
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>	    size)
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>       ii)  Create and restore DOS partion.  Try to 
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>            duplicate the partion sizes of the previous
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>            server. 
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>      iii)  Re-install Netware and duplicate the number of
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>            volumes and sizes of the previous file server.
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>       iv)  Restore the system and application files.  If 
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>	    the backup unit is on a workstation, load the
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>            Lan driver and bind ipx so the workstation can
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>            communicate with the file server.  Use the 
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>            same internal network number and network address.
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*** matching the name/ internal ipx address is not really necessary,
after the restore, reboot the server for the original (from a restore
AUTOEXEC.NCF) to be applied to the restored server
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>        v)  Reboot the file server so the old Autoexec.ncf
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>            and bindery files take effect.   
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>SCSI Questions
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>1.  If you are not using a SCSI drive to boot from (eg. IDE
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>    drive for the hard disk and SCSI Adapter for the CD-ROM
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>    drive) can you load the SCSI adapter driver after 
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>    SERVER.EXE is loaded (eg. in Autoexec.ncf)?
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*** yes this is typically how you want to do it.
*** Also, as an aside, there is a little know fact that you don't have
to load any disk drivers in STARTUP.NCF.  The main reason to load disk
drivers in STARTUP.NCF is to have it automatically mount a SYS: volume
from the media you specified.  If you don't load any disk drivers, SYS:
isn't mounted, and SERVER.EXE will look for AUTOEXEC.NCF on the C:
drive (current subdirectory) and run it from there.  The first lines in
AUTOEXEC.NCF have to give the file server name and internal IPX number.
 Then you load your disk drivers and explicitly MOUNT SYS:.  This is
helpful in some ISA machines with more than 16MB of memory, and in a
variety of other special cases.  (be warned that INSTALL.NLM will still
look to SYS:SYSTEM to edit an AUTOEXEC.NCF, so you must use EDIT.NLM to
modify the file.)..... but back to your questions.....

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>2.  Do you need to load the CD driver (eg. ASPICD.DSK) in
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>    Startup.ncf or can it be loaded after SERVER.EXE is
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>    loaded (eg. in Autoexec.ncf)?
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*** No, its ok to load it in AUTOEXEC.NCF
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>Other Questions
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>1.  How is disk duplexing set up?  Is special software 
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*** Disk duplexing is set up the same way you set up disk mirroring
(using INSTALL.NLM), but the partitions you indicate to be added to a
mirrored set exist on different SCSI adapters.
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>2.  Is there an option to mirror to more than one drive
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>    during the install procedure?
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*** I've never done this but you are supposed to be able to continue to
press insert over and over in the mirror setup option in INSTALL.NLM to
add multiple drives to the mirrored set.  i.e. if you have three 1 Gig
drives that you want to all contain copies of the same material,
highligh the main drive and hit enter (I'm doing this from memory so
sorry for any mis-keys)  Press insert, select one of the two remaining
partitions.  Press insert again, to add the last remaining partition to
the set.
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*** If that's not what you meant, how about this:  suppose you have two
1 Gig drives and 2 2 Gig drives.  You want a total of 3 Gig available
to the user, but you want the fault-tolerance that mirroring offers. 
First, create Netware partitions on each drive.  Use the mirroring
option to mirror the two 1 Gig partitions together,  Then, as a second
mirrored set, mirror the two 2Gig drives together.  Create a SYS:
volume (or other volume name) using one of the mirrored sets.  The add
the blocks of storage from the second mirrored set to the volume by
selecting the entry for list of partitions for the volume and pressing
insert to add the extra space.
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>3.  Are DAT drivers loaded after SERVER.EXE(or in startup.ncf)?
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***  DATs CDs Extra Drivers for other drives, LAN cards, etc should
typically be loaded in the AUTOEXEC.NCF.  This separation makes it
easier to troubleshoot problems in the future.  If a bad or corrupted
driver is keeping your server from loading correctly, you can type 
            SERVER -NA
for "No Autoexec.ncf" to keep AUTOEXEC.NCF from loading.  Startup.ncf
will load and SYS will be mounted, but the process stops before the bad
driver can foul-you-up.  You can then give a fictious server name (like
TEMP) and some dummy IPX internal net number (123) and proceed to
trouble shoot your AUTOEXEC.NCF.  You can type LOAD INSTALL to edit the
AUTOEXEC.NCF to comment-out or correct typing mistakes.  Then down the
server and bring it back normally to test your changes.
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>Thank you in advance for your help.
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**** I hope this was helpful.
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>Attila Fust
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>Toronto, Canada
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>attila@io.org
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