SMS Patch required for Backup

[bobafet]

To maintain backup and restore services on NetWare 6 and your network, you must install the SMS modules patch. The patch will supersede the SMS modules installed by default during the NetWare 6 installation.

Link for patch:

http://support.novell.com/misc/patlst.htm

NetWare 6
File Name: NW6SMS1A.EXE (SMS modules for NetWare 6)

 

[Borderline]

We have been testing NW6 for 2 months and I have applied the SMS patch and beta patch 011210n6.exe with DS 8.6.1 and NICI 2.0.1. So far it's fairly stable with GW6, Apache and iFolder, the NW Enterprise Web Server and NDPS have not faired as well (but that's another story). Our biggest problem is backing up the NW6 server from an NW5 server with Arcserve 7, we can create the job but it fails with, "E3191 Failed to attach to server". There is a beta patch 011210n5.exe that was recommended, but I am reluctant to install a beta on our production servers, especially when it replaces Server.exe. Has anyone been successful backing up NW6 from NW5 (maybe we're crazy) or have any ideas we can test?

 

[Guest_imported]

We have trouble to restore pre NW6 data (from 4.11, 5.1) to NW6 server via sbackup. Whe I start the restore server abends. Altough NW6SMS1a should resolve this problem acording tech support from Novell in our case this is not true! The server abended again!

Josef