Greetings, I have a customer with a unique challenge. Maybe it's not, but it seems to be to me because I am not a Novell guy. They are considering implementing TSM in their environment to back up a bunch of Novell servers that are out in remote plants with real slow links, like 256KBs. The servers have sometimes 300-600MB of changed data a night. With decent compression, we may be able to back them up overnight, since they would permit 5pm to 8am as the acceptable backup window. The challenge is when one server is replaced, either because it dies or is replaced with new hardware. The Novell servers have about 40GB of disk space, so there is no way they could restore across the slow link. Our thinking is to restore the server to a server at the central location where the TSM server is, so the restore could be accomplished more quickly, then ship the restored server down to the remote site. My customer's Novell guy says this won't work, because of the way Novell trees work. You can't restore the Novell server at the central site because it won't be part of the Novell tree(?!), and all the file permissions and ownerships will be wrong. Can somebody tell me what resources I should read to understand how to do this, or can share with me your methodology to do a bare-metal restore of a Novell server? I figure that surely by now a method has been derived. Thanks in advance,
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