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From: jsdph@acad3.alaska.edu (HARRIS DENNIS P)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: backups & reinstalls
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Date: 7 Feb 91 10:40:40 GMT
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In article <21790@dice.la.locus.com>, lee@locus.com (Lee Slaughter) writes...
>I have a couple of "new supervisor" questions I'd appreciate help
>on.
> 
>1. I have nightly unattended tape backups going on, but I
>have problems if users have stayed logged in (and of course
>no amount of pleading or threatening stops this) and therefore left
>files open. It screws up the backup. Is there any way to gracefully
>force users off other than console's "CLEAR STATION n"?
>(i.e. not damage open files)
> 
you don't say what kind of backup software you have, but decent 
backup software should allow you to skip open files.  then when 
users complain when you can't restore a file, you can remind them 
that you nagged them to log out before going home...  of course, 
you need to let them know that you can't back up their files if 
they don't log out.

>2. This backup software theoretically collects all the bindery
>information so I should be able to restore the server's disk in
>the event of a catastrophic hard drive failure. I am trying to
>prepare for that inevitable day.
>The problem is I'm not clear how.
>
binder info is in a couple of hidden files you can't normally 
see.  that's why you need to be logged in as SUPERVISOR in order 
to back up rights and trustee info.

>That is once the operating system is gen'd, I should have
>everything on the diskettes, but I can't find helpful information
>on exactly how one would go about re-installing this Adv Netware
>v2.15 from scratch. Simply cc'ing the gen'd o/s files to the new
>server hard disk and once getting the server up, restoring all
>the tape backup from the workstation?  If so, what are the o/s
>files I'd need to copy to the new hard drive in order to boot the
>server and get him up on the net? 
>
if it's a new drive, you have to re-install, because the drive 
may not be COMPSURFed.  on your existing drive, you boot with 
dos, run install, and go right to the menu item that copies files 
to the server.  don't forget to save a copy of your installed 
backup software on a floppy to re-install on the server so you 
can restore the files quickly. 

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