Netware 6.5 rsync

I would suggest dropping the rsync idea. Novell dropped it from NetWare because of issues with the open source maintainer and will not support the use of the tool unless you are a customer still using Branch Office and retain a maintenance agreement.

Take a look at this blog,


it has a really good plan on doing the same thing you are looking to use rsync for. Plus side, it's supported, and you have a better change of finding someone who has already done it this way than the rsync way.

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Thanks for the link.

I actually started there but that util needs to sync the whole tree to AD before you can migrate the files. I set up a test AD forest and it made duplicate accounts and I couldn't change the map file (if you change anything in it the check fails and it won't load).

I was able to get rsync running as a client on the Netware box so I can push everything to a rsync server.

Is this something Novell IDM can take care of for you?

No we are dumping Novell
I just needed to move everything to a windows file server.

I understand you are dumping Novell, but the IDM tool can sync users over, you'd just have to temporarily build an OES server and install IDM on it, run the sync and trash the old eDir/Novell stuff. Not sure how much you can do on a trial license.

The AD domain is fully populated so I can't sync the users since they don't all match and will cause dups. The rsync is working quite well it's just a pain to reset all the rights. On the other hand it's a good time to find out who really needs access to what. After 11 years I'm sure there are some loose perms out there.