A new release of Storage Management Services (SMS) is available at the Novell Support Web site. This release contains important fixes to the SMS components delivered with NetWare 6.
The fixes ensure compatibility between earlier versions of NetWare and the NetWare 6 SMS modules. In addition, the patch includes updates to SMS components (including SMDR and TSA), which have made the product more stable and robust.
To maintain backup and restore services on NetWare 6 and your network, you must install the patch. The patch will supersede the SMS modules installed by default during the NetWare 6 installation.
For more information, see the Readme included with the patch.
TSADOSP.NLM, the target service agent for the DOS file system on NSS, is no longer required. Instead, load DOSFAT.NSS and TSA600.NLM on the server hosting the DOS partition. This enables the partition to be listed as an NSS volume for backup or restore operations.
When Exclude/Include options are set for a workstation restore, only the selected data sets are restored. The log file and the status window of the session reports incorrect status. All the data sets are reported as restored, whereas only the data sets matching the specified options are actually restored.
Hard links are not supported by NSS in NetWare 6. Therefore, existing hard links in your data can no longer be restored to NSS.
Hard links in a NetWare Traditional File System cannot be restored to a directory that does not exist on the volume. That is, if the hard link has to be created in a directory that is different from the parent directory (where the file was originally located), then the directory for the hard link should exist on the volume before the hard link can be created. This is unlike a normal restore operation wherein a new directory is created whenever the restore directory is different from the parent directory.