Addressed to: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
              Jerry Lawson <jlawson AT ITTHARTFORD DOT COM

** Reply to note from "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>   
      Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:23:58 -0400

   The Notes agent backs up Notes databases MUCH slower than the ADSM/2 client 
- after all,
it has to examine each document and determine whether it has already been 
backed up, has
changed, etc.  The Notes agent backup is also much shorter, since it only backs 
up the
documents that have changed since the last backup.

   In our environment, less than 5% of documents change on a daily basis, so 
our daily
backup load is significantly less - and takes much less time - than our weekly 
file backup of
our Notes servers.  We conduct weekly file (ADSM client) backups to speed up 
restores.
Restoring 10,000 documents takes about as much time as restoring 10,000 small 
files.
Restoring one larger file takes much less time, then we only have to restore 
the documents
which have changed since the file backup.



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23:29:28    10/28/96
23:29:28    10/28/96
Paul C. Beck
Sr. Systems Engineer
Manassas Systems Integration Corp.
8575 King Carter Street
Manassas, VA 20110-4891

Voice/FAX:  703.257.0604
E-Mail:     beckpau AT ibm DOT net
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