Hi,
We have an application that behaves exactly like the NtBackup.exe and does some extra functionality based on our product. This has been working fine for almost all fileservers including EMC and NetAPP that support CIFS and windows based AD.
We have a beta deployment in progress with a customer who has a Novel File Server and a Novel based AD. When we run our application to backup a Novel share from a windows client we observed that we could not backup the security stream. On further investigation we observed that even NTBackup cannot backup the security stream from a Novel Backend.
We identified that tbackup.exe can be used to backup information from a Novel Backend but cannot restore security information on a windows backend.
MS provides a migration tool where the Novel users need to be migrated first to a Windows AD and then the data can be migrated to a windows server.
Is there any other known tool, methodology or workaround where we can use NtBackup.exe to backup and restore data and ACL's from a Netware volume to a Windows Server
Thanks,
Nikhil
Backup and Restore Data/Metadata for a Novel Backend.
Denis Pitcher
We did try the recommended approach and that did not work for us. I spoke to an MS engineer who may have worked on the Netware client and I don't think we have a clear solution to our problem.
thanks for your time!
-Nikhil
Manoj Verma
Hi Nikil, unfortunately this forum is probaly not the best to get that particular issue resolved since the team that monitors this forum is focused on software architecture/development as well as SDLC tools/process.
That said, I would encourage you to have a look at MS and Novels KBs. For example KB arcticle 312005 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;312005), suggests to use the Microsoft Client for NetWare instead of the Novell NetWare Client to solve a similllar issue with NTBackup.
You can also try one of the Windows Server newsgroups listed at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/serveros/win2003.mspx. They have forums for file services, network services etc.