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Before you do the merge, make sure that all servers in both trees are time synchronized and that they
use only one time server as a time source. However, the target tree time can be ahead of the source
tree time by as much as five minutes.
Generally, there should be only one Reference or one Single time server in a tree. Likewise, after the
merge, the tree should contain only one Reference or one Single time server.
If each of the trees you are merging has either a Reference or a Single time server, reassign one of
them to refer to the Reference or Single time server in the other tree so that the final merged tree
contains only one Reference or Single time server.
For more information on time server types, see the
Network Time Management Administration
Guide
(http://www.novell.com/documentation/lg/nw65/time_enu/data/hl5k6r0y.html)
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10.1.8 Merging Two Trees
For complete functionality of all menu options, run DSMerge on a server that contains the master
replica of the Tree partition.
If you don't know where the master replica is stored, you will be prompted with the correct server
name when you attempt an operation that requires the master replica.
To perform a merge operation, use either of the following methods:
Novell iManager
The command line client
For more information, see
Section 10.4, “Using the Client to Merge Trees,” on page 237
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When merging large trees, it is significantly faster to designate the tree with the fewest objects
immediately subordinate to the Tree object as the source tree. By doing this, you create fewer
partition splits during the merge, because all objects subordinate to the Tree object result in new
partitions.
Because the source tree name no longer exists after the merge, you might need to change your client
workstation configurations. For the Novell Client
TM
for DOS/Windows, check the Preferred Tree
and Preferred Server statements in the
net.cfg
files. For the Novell Client for Windows, check the
Preferred Tree and Preferred Server statements on the client Property Page.
If Preferred Server is used, the client is unaffected by a tree merge or rename operation because the
client still logs in to the server by name. If Preferred Tree is used and the tree is renamed or merged,
then that tree name no longer exists. Only the target tree name is retained after the merge. Change
the preferred tree name to the new tree name.
TIP:
To minimize the number of client workstations you need to update, designate the tree with the
most client workstations as the target tree, because the final tree retains the name of the target tree.
Or rename the tree after the merge operation so that the final tree name corresponds to the tree with
the greater number of client workstations attaching to it. For more information, see
Section 10.3,
“Renaming a Tree,” on page 236
.
Use the following list of prerequisites to determine readiness for the merge operation:
You have access to the source tree server through iManager
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