Managing The Print Services Manager; Optimizing Fault Tolerance - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

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Optimizing Fault Tolerance

Managing the Print Services Manager

Although the default settings in Novell
®
(NDPS ) allow your users to print without further configuration being
necessary, you will probably want to modify some of those settings so that you
can manage your printing resources most effectively.
This chapter discusses the following:
"Optimizing Fault Tolerance" on page 87
"Moving the NDPS Manager" on page 88
"NDPS Manager Startup Switches" on page 89
The NDPS Manager uses a database to store information about the printers it
controls. This database is backed up and replicated in eDirectory
database is automatically backed up, by default, once a day. You can modify
the backup options or manually backup the database using server console
interface for the Manager.
If the database fails to load through normal mechanisms, you can retrieve the
database from eDirectory and load the NDPS Manager on any other server in
the eDirectory tree.
IMPORTANT:
You cannot restore a database from eDirectory to the same server
that it was backed up from. In order to restore a database from eDirectory to its
original source server, you must first restore it to a different server, and then back
the database up to eDirectory from that server. You can then restore it to its original
server.
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