> We recently started to evaluate the ADSMConnect Agent for Lotus Notes on
> Windows NT. As many others have already reported we are also severely
> suffering under the amount of data the standard ADSM client is transfering
> to the ADSM server each day (about 400GB).
> Initial tests revealed some technical problems and design issues.
> Following is a requirement statement from our Lotus Notes expert, which I
> would like to forward you. Within the given infrastructure we are using,
> his proposal for a disaster recovery procedure using an enhanced agent
> looks fine to me.
> 
> Hans Beierle
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> From: Georg Weber@GMRUESSELSHEIM on 20.08.98 11:28
> 
> It is our goal to use ADSM incremental Lotus Notes agent as a tool to do
> disaster recovery for servers up to 100GB in 8 hours.
> 
> If you use the normal ADSM NT client it would take days to do that by
> restoring one database after the other.
> 
> With an improved ADSM Lotus Notes incremental agent it would be possible
> to break
> down this scenario.The procedure starts from scratch:
> 
> a.) Restore all Notes databases with no data in it. (This would take you
> for a mailfile only a few seconds since it is only at about 2MB big)
>      The user is happy since he is able to send mails and receive mails
> after 1-2 hours
> b) Restore the last work day for all users(at a rough estimation it should
> take you 4-8 hours)
>      The user accepts this and can answer to most actual problems
> c) Restore the last week (at a rough estimation it should take you
> 8-24hours)
>      The user has a slice of his old mails
> d) Restore the rest (takes you probably one week)
>      Some users will be unhappy since they have to wait awfully long.
> 
> To come up with a solution for this, the Lotus Notes agent needs some
> improvement,
> which should not be t0o complicated. 
> Currently for restoring a database completely from scratch, the agent
> first has to
> rebuild the design and than fill in all the documents. So please provide a
> solution to restore the
> design of the Notes database only, according to the incremental restore
> scenario described above!
> 
> 
> If we find no solution to recover a 100 GB server in 8 hours we will have
> to skip ADSM as a backup solution and go for an other product!!
> 
> Best Regards
>      Georg
> 
> PS   Other less critical problems are:
>      - Pruning delete entries older than xx days out of dsm.log
>      - Restore database from GUI with creating a Notes Database
>      - Restore option to rebuild database until a certain day in history
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