TSM for Mail for OS/400 can perform hot backup of Domino databases.  It
also uses the api, similar to BRMS.  You don't need BRMS if you are only
backing up Domino on the AS/400, you just need TSM for Mail for OS/400 and
the api (comes on the TSM for Mail CD).

Think of it as 2 separate products/clients just like the other platforms:
BRMS via api to TSM - for filesystem equivalent backup (user libraries and
objects, etc.)
TSM for Mail for OS/400 via api to TSM - Hot Domino database and log
backups

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John Monahan
Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions
Computech Resources, Inc.
Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109
Cell: 952-221-6938
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Um.  I'm clueless about the Domino part.
However, there is a redbook on that, too:  SG24-6937
(see Chapter 6, Backing up Domino with BRMS)

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From: Kent Monthei [mailto:Kent.J.Monthei AT GSK DOT COM]
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 9:05 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: AS400 brms client


My understanding is that BRMS itself cannot perform hot backup of Domino 6
databases.  As Wanda stated, the TSM api for AS400 only implements a
conduit from BRMS to a TSM server.   Since it must be used with BRMS, it
doesn't implement hot backup for Domino 6.  That's a key/critical
difference
from Tivoli Data Protection for Mail
api's on other platforms.

Wanda, if I'm wrong, please correct me (in detail, please) !

Kent Monthei
GlaxoSmithKline





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I have never done this myself, but I recently helped someone with a LOT of
BRMS experience get the API working to send data to TSM.

You are correct, there is no "native" TSM client for AS400, you run BRMS
and
install a TSM API so that TSM serves as your backstore for BRMS, instead
of
local tape drives.

You must get BRMS up and working first.  And that's not so simple.
BRMS works more like a "traditional" backup and restore product, with full
dumps followed by incrementals.

BRMS working with the API is a lot like one of the TDP for
Oracle/SQL/Exchange etc. products working through the API; all the version
control is done by BRMS, not TSM;  TSM just looks like a peculiar tape
driver to BRMS.

We actually found several good redbooks;
one of them just published last October:

Integrating Backup Recovery and Media Services and IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager on the IBM eServer iSeries Server, SG24-7031-00
Backup Recovery and Media Services for OS/400: More Practical Information,
REDP-0508-00
Backup Recovery and Media Services for OS/400: A Practical Approach,
SG24-4840-01

The first one talks about setting up a TSM SERVER on iseries; but it also
has a chapter on setting up BRMS as an API CLIENT, which is the chapter
you
need.  But again, you must get BRMS working first.

Hope that is some help.
Wanda Prather
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
443-778-8769

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Dilbert/Scott Adams



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From: storage [mailto:storage AT THEATOMICMOOSE DOT CA]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 9:04 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: AS400 brms client


We are trying to backup an as400 to our TSM server on W2k.

On the as400 are the following:


DB2 databases
Domino 6
data other than savesys files

The only redbook that outlines anything remotely close to what we are
trying
to achieve is the TSM on AS400 - it has a very small section on BRMS
client.
This leads me to believe that BRMS in full must be installed.

I am not a 400 person but the resources I do have access to have never
done
this.

Anyone with experience on this greatly appreciated.




Sam