We currently have over 160Gb of Notes mail databases that need to be backed up nightly. Due to incompatabilities with the Notes TDP, our version of TSM (v4.2.2.5) and the way compaction runs on our Notes servers, we have to use the normal Tivoli backup client to backup the mailboxes. It takes about 12 hours for all the databases to get backed up each night but the vast amount of this time seems to be spend trying and then retrying to send mailboxes to the TSM server. A typical schedule log looks like this:
28-07-2003 19:51:53 Retry # 2 Normal File--> 157,548,544 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\beggsa.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 19:52:28 Normal File--> 70,778,880 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\bingleyj.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 19:54:05 Retry # 1 Normal File--> 349,437,952 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\bignasck.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 19:55:10 Normal File--> 131,072,000 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\Bishnic.nsf Changed 28-07-2003 19:56:58 Normal File--> 265,289,728 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\bellm.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 19:58:08 Retry # 1 Normal File--> 131,072,000 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\Bishnic.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 20:00:46 Normal File--> 387,186,688 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\BLACKAD.NSF Changed 28-07-2003 20:03:52 Normal File--> 367,263,744 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\BERNECKC.NSF Changed 28-07-2003 20:06:18 Retry # 1 Normal File--> 387,186,688 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\BLACKAD.NSF [Sent] 28-07-2003 20:10:11 Normal File--> 1,011,613,696 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\binneyk.nsf Changed 28-07-2003 20:11:52 Retry # 2 Normal File--> 953,942,016 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\andrewsj.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 20:12:01 Retry # 1 Normal File--> 367,263,744 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\BERNECKC.NSF [Sent] 28-07-2003 20:12:05 Normal File--> 10,485,760 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\bousran.nsf [Sent] 28-07-2003 20:13:40 Normal File--> 720,633,856 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\mail\BLACKC.NSF Changed 28-07-2003 20:18:58 Retry # 3 Normal File--> 1,863,057,408 \\sdbo5211\d$\notes\data\dbecna.nsf Changed Is there anything we can do reduce the window for this backup? Both the TSM server and our Notes server have dedicated 1Gb links so bandwidth isn't a problem. The Backup Copy Group for the Management Class the Notes data is allocated to has Copy Serialization set to 'Shared Static'. Would changing this to Dynamic be beneficial in reducing the amount of retries that occur and also setting CHANGERETRIES to a lower option help? Thanks in advance, Gordon Woodward Senior Support Analyst Deutsche Asset Management (Australia) Limited -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.
