User Guide

Setting Up 73
Storage Management Services Administration Guide
103-000134-001
August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
eDirectory Restore Session Types
You can choose to restore eDirectory in one of the following ways:
 “Single Server or an Entire Tree Restore” on page 73
 “Custom eDirectory Restore” on page 73
 “Custom File System Restore” on page 74
 “Server-Specific Information Restore” on page 76
 “Single File or Directory Restore” on page 76
Single Server or an Entire Tree Restore
1
Restore the entire eDirectory session from your SMS backup.
You will have no session file to work from at this point. Choose the option
to restore without session files.
2 Continue through Step 15 on page 65 to Step 19 on page 65 to restore
eDirectory.
Custom eDirectory Restore
To perform a custom eDirectory restore, do the following.
1 Enter SBCON at the server console prompt.
2 Select Job Administration.
3 Select Restore Options > Advanced Restore Options > Subsets of What
to Restore.
4 To specify a subset, do the following.
4a Select any item on the screen.
4b Edit the Include or Exclude screen using Insert and Enter.
4c Press Esc to save your changes.
5 Specify whether or not to overwrite the existing parent or child.
A parent is a container. A child is an object, which is the lowest level of
the eDirectory tree.
If you want to overwrite the parent or child that exists on the hard disk,
regardless of whether the existing version or the backed-up version has
the latest date, accept YES for parent, child, or both.