Disater Recovery of Netware Server from SMS Compliant Backup.
 | Fix the hardware problem or setup new hardware. |
| Install Netware on the fixed/new hardware and install into a bogus tree and NOT into the production tree. Make sure the drive is as large as or larger than what you need to restore. |
| Login to the new server/tree with the backup server console. |
| Restore Server Specific Info. (With Arcserve, this will restore to sys:system\xxx, where xxx is the server name. It restores servdata.nds, autoexec.ncf, startup.ncf files) |
| Move the servdata.nds to sys:system directory. |
| Remove DS from the server. |
| Follow the instructions from Novell below. Some information is redundant. |
| The Servdata.NDS file is created in SYS:SYSTEM by your tape backup software and backed up on tape if you are using a backup software with SMS compatibility. The file allows you to retain user home directory pointers and print queues when one server in a multi-server tree has crashed. The DSMAINT -PSE procedures discussed in TID 2920601 produce the same result for Netware 4.x servers. IMPORTANT: Do not delete the old server or volume objects from the tree before starting this procedure. With this procedure, there is no need to create a dummy object as suggested in the DSMAINT -PSE TID 2920601. To use SERVDATA.NDS: 1) Replace the defective hardware. 2) Install Netware using the same internal IPX number and servername as the original server, but use a dummy tree name. Do not install the server into the production tree. 3) Restore the servdata.nds file from tape to the SYS:SYSTEM directory. 4) Load INSTALL (NW 4.x) or NWCONFIG (NW 5.x) and select Directory Options | Remove Directory Services from the server. This will remove the dummy tree from this server. 5) From the same NWCONFIG | Directory Options menu, select Directory Backup and Restore Options | then select Restore local server information after hardware failure. This option will look for the SERVDATA.NDS file in the SYS:SYSTEM directory to restore the home directory pointers and print queue pointers. 6) Replace any replicas that existed on the server prior to the crash. The DS database files are created in the _Netware directory, but replicas cannot be restored from the SERVDATA.NDS file. |
| If the server held a replica, you will probably need to delete the entry of the old replica info from the partition using NDSMGR32. |
| Restore files and make sure to overwrite any existing files (Remember Zenworks?) but check the autoexec.ncf for new hardware, etc. |
