Novell Data Loss When Vrepair is Used on Multiple Volumes

Like other operating system volumes, Novell volumes may also get affected and may become inaccessible. To overcome such problems, Novell provides an in-built tool known as Vrepair.

Vrepair is a command line utility in Novell server that is used to resolve scenarios like Novell volume corruption and deleted name space entries from the Directory Entry Table (DET). Vrepair can be used in the following situations:

• A hardware malfunction has prevented Novell volume from being mounted or has caused disk read errors.
• Novell volume has got corrupted due to power outage.
• The server is showing memory errors and could not mount the disk volume after adding a name space to volume.

Vrepair can resolve all these issues and make your Novell volume accessible. Vrepair does the following tasks:

• It compares damaged volume’s primary tables with its counterparts.
• Checks the mirrored table sets for errors. If it finds any inconsistency, it uses the most recent table for replacing entries.
• Repairs bad volume, which has got dismounted while others were functioning.

Due to its capability, this Novell tool is extremely helpful and used by a number of Novell users under different situations. But along with the features it provides, this tool also has some limitations that could result into data loss and may put you in need of Novell Recovery.

When you repair multiple volumes using Vrepair, the data loss occurs on second and following volumes. The data loss might take place when the second or following volume is undergoing repair.During the repair procedure, the file and directory information from first volume repair still resides in the cache. File and directory information on secondary volume might be overwritten with data from first repaired volume.

No matter what the cause of this problem is, the final result will be the loss of your valuable data. You need to fix it by performing Novell Netware Recovery through powerful and advanced Novell Partition Recovery software. These software serve as result-oriented plus user-friendly tools to salvage all lost data from the affected Novell volumes. The software are designed as read-only applications to achieve safe and non-destructive data recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Novell Data Recovery software is the comprehensive and trustworthy Novell Recovery Software. The software thoroughly scans the affected hard drive and extracts all lost data. It supports Novell NetWare Recovery from both NWFS (Netware File System) and NSS (Novell Storage Services) file system based hard drives.