Barry Johnson says:

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> I haven't dug very far into the LNA (and I await the redbook in the hope it
> will fill in a lot of the detail without me having to experiment), but I've
> assume LNA works the same way as ADSM: it retains the last <n> versions of a
> given document.  Of course, as neat as LNA is in the way it adds action items
> to LNotes' menu so that a restore is done in the context of the appropriate
> LNotes data base, it is also pretty poor in the way you have to guess the
> backup date for what you want restored...
>     The application part of the LNotes data base (Forms, Views, etc.) is also
> stored as documents, albeit it special ones one assumes, within the data base;
> presumably this is why rolling out application updates is as easy as
> distributing updates to the data itself: it is all equally managed by the
> replication mechanism.
>     Now, if the application design documents were backed up and were subject
> to the same keeping of, say, the last 5 copies...it might be useful to say
> "ooops; please restore yesterday's design...

I can't speak to the application portion of a notes data base. As to having
"to guess the backup date for what you want restored" - while I would very
much like the interface to be improved, you shouldn't have to guess what
the backup date was; or more correctly, it shouldn't matter, at least in most
cases. If you had to restore the latest version, this is of course not a
problem. If you had to restore a prior version, presumably you'd know when
the current version was corrupted, and you can use the date and time filters
to get the version prior to the corruption time. Because if you don't know
when the data was corrupted, how would you know which version to restore,
whether you had a list of dates or not?

But again, I'd also like an improved interface. While I *know* ADSM has my
backups, I still like the warm fuzzy feeling of being able to actually see
them. My point is: while it's not obvious, the tools are there restore the
data to when you need it. You just need to make sure the management class
maintains a sufficient number of versions for a sufficient amount of time
to provide the recoverability you need.

Andy Raibeck
Connecticut Mutual
203-987-3521