Managing the NDS tree

Considerations before creating partitions and replicas

This topic provides a list of items for you to consider. We strongly recommend that make a record of the partitions and replicas stored on your servers, in case you should ever need to restore NDS.

Before you create your partitions and replicas, or immediately after they are all set up, ask yourself

How many servers are on the network?
What are the names of those servers?
If you are creating partitions and replicas on more than one server, how are they installed?
Which server is Single Reference, which is Primary, and which servers are Secondary?
How are the replicas set up? How many are there? On which servers do they exist? Which replicas are master? Read/write? Read-only? Subordinate?
How are your partitions set up? Which partitions are the parents? Which partitions are the children?

After all of your partitions and replicas are set up, you can view your data and make a note of it. To do this, see ``Viewing a list of partitions stored on a NetWare server'' or ``Viewing a list of replicas in a partition'' or ``Viewing a list of partitions in a directory tree''.

Make a note every time changes are made to the servers, partitions, or replicas. That way, if disaster occurs to your NDS tree, you or another system administrator can easily check the server configurations.

For information on how to restore NDS in case of failure, see ``Backing up and restoring NetWare directory services''.