One slight clarification... You can use FlashCopy Manager on Windows with any hardware. You are not limited to IBM hardware.
Thanks, Del ---------------------------------------------------- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu> wrote on 01/14/2013 04:19:11 PM: > From: "Prather, Wanda" <wanda.prat...@icfi.com> > To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, > Date: 01/14/2013 04:22 PM > Subject: Re: Backing Up Lotus Domino Servers > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu> > > 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 >
