Backups And The File System - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Frequency of Backup

Backups and the File System

eDirectory backup to back up the portions of the tree for which they have
rights.
The network administrator assigns the Supervisor right to the backup
administrators for the section of the eDirectory tree structure that they are
responsible to back up. The network administrator then needs to create a
TSANDS.CFG file that lists the fully distinguished names of the containers
where each of the backup administrators' rights begin. The TSANDS.CFG file
should be saved in the SYS:SYSTEM\TSA directory of the server.
In general, the eDirectory database should be backed up on a weekly basis.
The frequency of this backup depends on how often changes and updates are
made to the eDirectory tree structure. For a tree that changes often, you might
want to perform an eDirectory backup every time you do a full backup of all
servers on the network.
IMPORTANT:
Always back up eDirectory prior to major tree modifications.
To get a full backup, the entire eDirectory tree structure needs to be
functioning, meaning that all partitions are synchronizing normally. An
eDirectory tree cannot be backed up entirely if any replicas of any partition are
offline.
Back up your volumes so that in the case of hardware failure, natural
catastrophe, or accidental change or deletion of files, you can restore the file
system to a previous state and not lose the data.
To back up file system data, an appropriate SMS TSA must be loaded on each
server for which a file system backup is to be created (see
Service Agents" on page
your backup application can handle the NetWare file system name spaces,
extended attributes, trustee rights, compression, etc.
Once the device drivers for your backup hardware and the SMS TSA software
is loaded, you can run the backup program of your choice (see
SBCON" on page 46).
45). To back up file system information, make sure
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