The best way to protect your database is to use replicas. A tape backup that provides a snapshot in time also increases the fault tolerance for your network. Tape backups protect data and Novell® eDirectoryTM information in single-server environments and in the event of a catastrophe such as a fire or flood. Replication, however, is not sufficient protection for a single-server network or when all copies of the replicas are destroyed or if one of the replicas become corrupted. In these instances, if the data has been backed up regularly, the tree structure can be restored using any backup/restore utility compliant with SMSTM.
Novell provides the following SMS-compliant utilities to back up and restore on each platform: