• How to Backup eDirectory 8.8 SP6 Properly and do the restore?

    Hello: My eDirectory 8.8 SP6 Servers went "up in the magic purple smoke", but thankfully I had recent backups (Boy was I wrong). I have noted the following backup and restore process but something clearly seems to not be working (as in restore fails…
  • How to Backup and Restore eDirectory 8.8 on Windows Server 2003?

    Hello: I am in a pretty old environment and I am curious how to backup and restore eDir 8.8 on windows? I've gotten a backup to take and I think I've gotten roll-forward backups to take but I cannot verify this. Additionally, I do I know if a restore…
  • eDirectory DSMASTER recovery in lab

    I've got a rather simple eDirectory tree setup: servers srv1, srv2 and srv3, all eDirectory 9.2.8 on SLES15 (virtual machines in Vmware) There's only the root partition, srv1 has master replica, srv2 and srv3 r/w replicas, rolling forward logs are not…
  • ndsbackup error codes

    Hi there, I'm getting a status -174 when running ndsbackup on one of five trees. The other four are fine and use the same syntax in the backup.sh file. the backup file is created even with the error but the size is not consistent by a margin of 10mb compressed…
  • Schema Backup

    Hi, I need to update my eDirectory schema for the SSPR application and, being a bit paranoid, I want to do a schema backup first, just in case something goes wrong and I need to recover. The schema LDIF is provided by NetIQ and should work but I still…