Recovering Deleted/Lost/Missing Data From Novell Servers
Section 3.1: How data recovery software work) by changing the Linking Mode to Contiguous (Tools->Change Linking Mode->Contiguous Mode).
Select any number of files to be recovered and then click the Recover Selected button to restore the data. Alternatively, clicking the Recover All button will recover all displayed files. (The Recover Selected/All feature is only activated in the full version – it is not available in the trial version).
NSS
The steps are similar to the ones shown above. They are:
- Select the physical disk
- Select the NSS Pool
- Select the Volume
- The software looks for deleted entries in the selected volume and displays the result in a simple tree structure after which any number of files can be recovered.
3.2.2.How to recover missing/lost NetWare partitions
The process of recovering of missing/lost NetWare partitions is similar to the steps shown above in 3.1 How to recover deleted files. The one difference is that instead of specifying the Pool and/or Volume to recover, you need to choose the hard disk to recover from – this is because the software will scan the entire disk to look for missing/lost NetWare partitions.
NWFS
- Use the 'Search NetWare Partition' option and then select the physical disk which contains the lost/missing partition.
- The software searches the selected disk for all partitions. Since the search is intensive, it may take some time to complete. After the search is over, the software will display a list of all found partitions
- Select the partition which contains the missing/lost volume
- Select the Volume from which data needs to be recovered
- The software then analyses the volume's data structures and file system attributes and displays the result in a simple tree structure after which any number of files may be recovered
NSS
The method of recovering missing/lost NSS Volumes is similar to the steps given above. Moreover, Stellar Phoenix Novell also has an additional feature in which NSS Pools can be searched for, and recovered.
- Use the 'Advanced Search for NSS Volumes' or 'Advanced Search for NSS Pools' option and select the physical disk which contains the lost/missing Volume or Pool
- The software does an intensive search and lists all the pools/volumes it can find
- Select the Pool/Volume from which data needs to be recovered
- The software analyses the relevant data structures and file system attributes and displays the result in a simple tree structure after which any number of files may be recovered
The steps laid out in the 2 sections above work for most Volume types, such as Segmented Volumes, Sub-allocated Volumes, etc and for most data loss events, such as Formatted Volumes, Re-partitioned Volumes, etc. However, recovery of compressed volumes is a slightly more complicated issue and is discussed in the next section.
3.2.3. How to recover compressed Volumes
(For NetWare 4.x and above)
If a Volume is given compression capability, then some data in the Volume will most likely be compressed. When such data is recovered, it is still in a compressed format and thus unusable. Thus, effective data recovery software need to have a decompression module in them to ensure full usability of the recovered data – ensure that the recovery software you use has such a capability. | 
