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From: brian@la.excelan.com (Brian Meek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NFS Suppoart in NetWare
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.181341.22638@novell.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 06:50:25 GMT
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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 1991 18:13:41 GMT

In article <9204@hub.ucsb.edu> 9531sons@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Jamie Sonsini) writes:
>
>Thanks for posting this entry. We are just in the process of moving a
>Netware 386 server (token ring attached ) into the same location as two
>Sun systems (3/50 & 3/280) which are on a local ethernet LAN.  The
>Netware system is new and has no tape backup (yet) and I was thinking
>that it would sure be handy if we could use the Exabyte tape drive
>which is attached to our Sun 3/50. Just put an ethernet card into the
>Netware server.
>
>From reading this posting, it looks like NFS support would let us use
>the Unix backup (dump and restore) programs to backup our Netware
>server.  Does this make sense? Anyone tried this?  Are there alternate
>ways we could do this without buying NFS support?
>
Sure, it will work... but not the way I think you want it to.  Unix
dump of the NetWare filesystem to a Unix tape will only get the 
files themselves and the _Unix_ file attributes.  Mac, DOS and OS/2
namespace, nor the NetWare bindery information would not get backed up.

Sounds like an opportunity for vendors of Unix based backup systems :-).

brian
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