Oh, and I should have clarified - You are going to use TSM for Mail regardless. It's just whether or not you have Flashcopy assisting it.
-----Original Message----- From: Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 4:18 PM To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] Backing Up Lotus Domino Servers I think it depends on your environment, your hardware, the size of your mail servers. The original use of Flashcopy manager (this is about the third name for the product - it was originally something like "TSM for hardware") was to facilitate use of snapshots of volumes taken with IBM disk hardware. And that part only works for IBM hardware - San Volume Controller(SVC), DS8000, etc. (not EMC or Hitachi disk, as they have their own snapshot software). The idea there is that you get a quick snapshot (based on a copy-on-write trackmap, I think) of the volume, then do the backup from the copy, not the primary. Depending on your environment, you might also consider it an advantage to be able to do an almost-instant-restore of that backup from the disk copy, rather than from tape. And with Exchange+VSS, at least, you can keep multiple versions of the VSS backups on disk, in addition to the tape copies. TSM for Mail with Exchange 2010 requires the use of VSS snapshots for the backups. TSM for Mail with Exchange 2007 it's an option, not a requirement. But even though it's a VSS snapshot, my 3 customers don't keep the data on disk, it goes straight to tape anyway. So if you have a huge Lotus environment and IBM disk-snapshot-capable hardware, I'd look into it, see if you can leverage that disk capability. If you just have a garden-variety modest size Lotus environment where you don't have issues with time windows doing your backups, and you just want a typical weekly-full-to-tape plus daily incrementals, maybe no advantage at all. W -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of white jeff Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 3:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing Up Lotus Domino Servers Hi I have been asked to implement a solution for backup of Lotus Domino Servers using TSM. At this moment in time, i am unsure if they will be running this is on Windows, Unix or Linux. I have done this previously and was intending to implement a similar solution: Weekly full backups, daily incremental backups and frequent transaction log backups, using domdsmc commands. However, a colleague suggested using Flashcopy Manager, something i am unfamiliar with at the moment. Having looked at the documentation, i can see that Flashcopy v3.1 for Windows can create VSS snapshot backups of applications such as Lotus Domino Server. I attended a presentation in Germany in 2011 where Del Hoobler talked about TSM for Mail and specifically, Lotus Domino Server, using the techniques i had previously used. This was my preferred method. So, TSM for Mail or via Flashcopy. What are the benefits, if any, of using Flashcopy? Thanks
