Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 984

Entire Tree
Partial eDirectory Restores
To finish restoring eDirectory on the tree, do the following.
1
Restore the file system information to each server following
Data" on page 62.
2
Re-create partitions and replicas.
3
(Optional) Verify proper restoration of the data, trustee assignments, file
ownership, and other related information by spot-checking some of the
restored directories and files.
Commands that might be helpful include RIGHTS /T /S (displays users,
groups and other objects that have explicit trustee assignments in a
directory and its subdirectories) and NDIR (displays owners and other
NetWare file information).
Certain conditions might arise in special cases involving the backup and
restoration of eDirectory information.
The SMS TSA software allows you to do selective restores from the backup
media. However, partial restoration of eDirectory from a backup can have
many subtle consequences, particularly when only a single object or a selected
group of objects is restored.
For partial eDirectory restores, keep these two main issues in mind:
Object ID numbers—If you restore objects that no longer exist in the
eDirectory tree, those objects receive new ID numbers when restored.
New object IDs affect file system trustees, print queue directories, user
mail directories, etc.
If you restore objects on top of objects that exist in the eDirectory tree,
the objects do not receive new ID numbers. These objects' current
attribute and property information is overwritten with previous
information from the SMS backup.
Objects that depend on other objects—In the eDirectory schema,
objects are defined to have certain attributes. Some of these attributes are
mandatory (meaning they must contain a value); others are optional.
For some eDirectory objects, the value for a particular attribute is a
reference to another object upon which the object depends. For example,
Queue object has a Queue Directory attribute that contains the file system
path to the queue directory. It also has a Host Server attribute that
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