On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:54:45 +0000 (UTC), Juhani Heikkila wrote:
> We still have Novell Netware 3.12 server and we lost the bindery data, the
> data was probably corrupted, I have neglected the maintenance, bindfix was
> executed last time 2001.

Does bindfix help if you try it now? If not, you're probably going to have
to re-create your users and groups, then re-do your file system trustee
rights.

> We have HP Colorado backup II and I tried to get
> the bindery data back using software versions 8 and 9, but without luck,

What happens when you try this? Is the backup software NetWare aware?

> seem to be that there is no Novell support anymore?

The NetWare 3.12 "end of life" declaration was a few years ago. NetWare 4
(1995) replaced it quite a while ago. Since then, versions 4.11, 4.12, 5,
5.1, 6, and 6.5 have shipped.

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David Gersic wrote:

: Does bindfix help if you try it now? If not, you're probably going to have
: to re-create your users and groups, then re-do your file system trustee
: rights.
- It's possible that I accidentally run bindres first, then it doesn't
help. I'm going to re-create users and groups, tomorrow. Any idea how they
get their old mails, we use Mercury and Pmail.

: > We have HP Colorado backup II and I tried to get
: > the bindery data back using software versions 8 and 9, but without luck,

: What happens when you try this? Is the backup software NetWare aware?
- I can restore very easily all the file - except t.ex. bindery files
net$*.sys.

: > seem to be that there is no Novell support anymore?

: The NetWare 3.12 "end of life" declaration was a few years ago. NetWare 4
: (1995) replaced it quite a while ago. Since then, versions 4.11, 4.12, 5,
: 5.1, 6, and 6.5 have shipped.
- I know, so is our server in a half year.

Thanks and regards,

Juhani Heikkila, physicist internet: juhani.heikkila@oulu.fi
Department of Clinical Chemistry
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Oulu University Hospital phone: +358-8-3154075 fax: -3154700
BOX 500
FIN-90029 OYS, FINLAND home:-5545966 mobile:358-400-013949

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:37:55 +0000 (UTC), Juhani Heikkila wrote:
> David Gersic wrote:
>
>: Does bindfix help if you try it now? If not, you're probably going to have
>: to re-create your users and groups, then re-do your file system trustee
>: rights.
> - It's possible that I accidentally run bindres first, then it doesn't
> help. I'm going to re-create users and groups, tomorrow. Any idea how they
> get their old mails, we use Mercury and Pmail.

All the mail is in SYS:MAIL\[BinderyObjectID]. You either have to know the
object ids for the users, or you'll have to look through all of the
subdirectories of SYS:MAIL to figure it out.

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