Geoff, We have been running TDP for domino for almost a year now. Here are some answers to your questions:
>>Does anyone running this have a "best practices" setup? We have 3 different Domino Servers being backed up differently. Our Domino Web Server (Not many changes) gets a full "selective" backup every night, no transaction logging. Our Domino Development Server (Slightly more changes) gets an "incremental" backup every night, a full "selective backup" once a month, and a transaction log archive once a day. Our Domino Mail/Replication Hub server (Plenty of changes) gets an "incremental" backup every night, a full "selective backup" once a month, and a transaction log archive every 6 hours. >>How is the TSM server set up to expire old data? Or is it done via the client? We decided to create 3 different management classes for the data: one for our Product Related Databases (storage retention 10 years) one for our Mail Databases (storage retention 6 months) and one for our System Databases (log files, etc. storage retention 2 versions). Expiration is handled by the server. >>Do you have any options files I can take a look at? Here is an example of our daily incremental options file: COMMMethod TCPip TCPPort 1500 TCPServeraddress 0.0.0.0 (masked to protect the innocent) TCPWindowsize 63 TCPBuffSize 32 NODename PISCES.TDP COMPRESSIon Off PASSWORDAccess Generate SCHEDMODE Polling * Created by Shawn Tullier * This opt file for incremental database backups and archive of transaction logs. * Modified 3/25/01 14:40 INCLUDE *.NTF STRUCTURE INCLUDE *.NTF.DATA STRUCTURE INCLUDE *.NSF STRUCTURE INCLUDE *.NSF.DATA STRUCTURE EXCLUDE *.BOX EXCLUDE ACTION\...\* EXCLUDE ADSMRESTORE\...\* EXCLUDE DOC\...\* EXCLUDE DOMINO\...\* EXCLUDE LOCALADDRBOOKS\...\* EXCLUDE "LOTUS KNOWLEDGEBASES\...\*" INCLUDE CORP\...\* PRODUCTDATA INCLUDE INTRALOX\...\* PRODUCTDATA INCLUDE MACHY\...\* PRODUCTDATA INCLUDE MSHOP\...\* PRODUCTDATA INCLUDE STAIR\...\* PRODUCTDATA INCLUDE MAIL\...\* MAIL INCLUDE MAILARCHIVE\...\* MAIL * Include all transaction logs INCLUDE S*.TXN PRODUCTDATA >>do you have any sample files for each of the types of backups you do? Here are copies of the different batch commands that we created: log archive -> set dom_dir="C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\domino" cd /d %dom_dir% echo Current date is: >> domarc.log date /t < NUL >> domarc.log echo Current time is: >> domarc.log time /t < NUL >> domarc.log start /B domdsmc archivelog /adsmoptfile=dsm.opt /logfile=domasch.log >> domarc.log daily incremental -> set dom_dir="C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\domino" cd /d %dom_dir% echo Current date is: >> dominc.log date /t < NUL >> dominc.log echo Current time is: >> dominc.log time /t < NUL >> dominc.log start /B domdsmc incremental * /subdir=yes /adsmoptfile=dsm.opt /logfile=domisch.log >> dominc.log montly selective -> set dom_dir="C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\domino" cd /d %dom_dir% echo Current date is: >> domsel.log date /t < NUL >> domsel.log echo Current time is: >> domsel.log time /t < NUL >> domsel.log start /B domdsmc selective * /loggedonly /subdir=yes /adsmoptfile=dsmsel.opt /logfile=domssch.log >> domsel.log **A very important piece of advice, make sure to read Appendix G in the TDP User's Guide that talks about recovering from the loss of the Transaction Logs. Ours got corrupted about 4 months ago, and I wasn't aware of the delicateness of the situation. It has taken 4 months to bring things back to normal. Hope this info helps, Shawn Tullier ITS Technical Design Laitram Corporation (504) 733 - 6000 x 1618 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
