Sbcon Guidelines - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

SBCON Guidelines

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Storage Management Services Administration Guide
Before you set up and begin backups, follow these guidelines to make backups
easier and to avoid problems later.
Log in. You will have limited success backing up and restoring if you log
in without the Supervisor right.
For security reasons, many SBCON options are limited to the network
administrator.
Reserve disk space for temporary files. Make sure you have disk space
available (1 to 2 MB) on the target server's volume SYS: to accommodate
log and error files.
SBCON creates temporary files on the target server during backup. If you
have linked UNIX* files or files with extended attributes, the temporary
files might be larger than 1 MB.
Do not mount or dismount volumes during a backup or restore
session. The data might be corrupted or an
host server.
Use the correct name space and name space formats. If you do not use
the correct name space and name space formats when entering paths and
file names, files can't be restored.
Name spaces: DOS, FTAM, Macintosh, NFS, OS/2
Name space formats:
For Macintosh, use Volume::directory:directory:filename
For all others, use Volume:/directory/directory/filename
Exit SBCON before unloading drivers. If you unload a manually
loaded driver (such as aha1740.dsk or aspitran.dsk) before exiting
SBCON, you might cause the host server to abend.
Use original case for non-DOS names. Non-DOS pathnames and
filenames are case-sensitive. NetWare recognizes DOS pathnames and
filenames in uppercase only. If you're not sure of the original case, refer
to your log file.
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