| You must have heard the word Novell many a times if | | | | consistent with the workstation operating system used |
| you are in Information Technology field. Many network | | | | by the client. |
| administrators and computer professionals talk about | | | | The speed of accessing the server's file system |
| working on novell volumes, about their corruptions and | | | | should be comparable to the speed of accessing a |
| other problems related to the file system. | | | | workstation's local hard disk. |
| | | | Other benefits of NetWare are; |
| What is Novell NetWare? Novell Netware is a file | | | | · Users can share data. |
| system which consists of servers including storage | | | | · Access to file resources is improved |
| systems that have one or more volumes of | | | | · Security of data is improved |
| information. The first volume is called as SYS and | | | | · Privacy of data can be protected |
| others can be named as VOL1, VOL2 etc. | | | | · Management and backup of data is centralized |
| Novell has two operating systems; Novell Traditional | | | | With such benefits and features available, the Novell |
| and Novell Netware. The major feature of novell's | | | | users might face novell corruption situations; partition |
| operating system, Netware 5.1, is its robust, scalable | | | | table corruption, operating system file corruption, |
| and time-tested Novell Directory Services, also known | | | | volume table, hotfix tables get corrupt, pool table, leaf |
| as NDS. | | | | or branch corruption or when vrepair fails to repair the |
| Here I will discuss the advantageous features of Novell | | | | corrupt volumes. |
| NetWare. The major feature of Novell NetWare is | | | | To overcome this, one can just search for Novell data |
| that the NetWare file system can be accessed by | | | | recovery software or Novell recovery software which |
| NetWare clients. But as the netware file system can | | | | can effectively recover data from the corrupt |
| be accessed, users should keep in mind that; | | | | volumes, segmented volumes, volume recovery from |
| The NetWare file system on the server should be | | | | compressed files and directories, Partition Recovery |
| well- organized and easy to maintain. | | | | from sub allocated data volumes etc. Data recovery |
| Users must share the file system on the server | | | | novell is made easy and effective by the number of |
| without violating system security or the privacy of | | | | novell data recovery software available in the data |
| other users. | | | | recovery market. |
| Access to the file system should be intuitive and | | | | |