Addressed to: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
              Alan Anderson <anderaj AT SPCS.BRITISHSTEEL.CO DOT UK>

** Reply to note from "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>   
      Thu, 31 Oct 1996 03:48:34 EST


>>  could anyone explain how it is that ADSM can backup
>>  Lotus Notes DBs differentially, (when no other product
>>  can)?   (In other words, how does it go beyond the
>>  system tags to find out if a DB has actually changed,
>>   or not?)

   ADSM uses the Lotus Notes API (as anyone else could) to search the documents 
within
databases.  ADSM treats a database the same as it does a disk drive (file 
space) and treats
each document the same as a file.  Therefore, ADSM maintains a database entry 
for each
document, which are compared to the contents on subsequent backups.




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Paul C. Beck
Sr. Systems Engineer
Manassas Systems Integration Corp.
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Manassas, VA 20110-4891

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