Re: [Veritas-bu] Domino ( lotus notes ) on Windows

Hi Steve,

I understand your requirements, in my case the main goal is reducing the amount of data we back up every night, almost of our backed up data is notes based. Also, it is the biggest consumer in the catalog. I did a configuration of the notes agent once with older NBU 4.5, but don't remember details now. Now I use NBU 5.1, based what Bobby is saying, you would still need to do backups for nsf files via the client agent rather then via the regular file level agent. I would assume, let's say if I would still continue full weekly backups as the file level and then just daily backup of the transaction log, when I need to recover the mail file then I would need to restore either the transaction log for the requested date and then notes admin can do the rest. I guess, we have to test our self, I will work on it next week and then I will see how it works for us. We are just the impression that different people that joined our team just recently had SOME experience with TSM and Notes, and they say it works with no any problems with that combination. And I would like to see if NBU 6.5.1 will have any better snap shot, we plan to move it to that soon.

Thank you,
B

On 11/2/07, Steve Quan < sq01 AT yorku DOT ca> wrote:

Hi Boris,

While the actual backups of the tarnsaction logs (via the API) ran without
problems, because of the activity, and to prevent out of space conditions,
we had to do this on a frequent basis (every 8 hrs). We also realized that
we required incrementals to catch any unexpected dbid changes (which would
invalidate the current backup). What we were hoping to get from the
transaction log backups, was "point in time" recoveries, which we never
got to work, possibly because our full/incrementals would run for
approximately 48+ hours. We eventually settled for all fulls, AND STILL
LOOKING for a solution ...

/Steve
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Boris Kraizman wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Could you tell what exactly did not work for you with transaction log
> backups?
> I was asked to evaluate the transaction log backups thru the NetBackup Notes
> agent, and I was wondering if anybody does it at all.
>
> Thank you,
> Boris
>
> On 11/1/07, Steve Quan < sq01 AT yorku DOT ca> wrote:
>>
>> This is also a BIG issue with us (over a terabyte). We'd hoped that doing
>> incrementals through transaction log backups would help (with the added
>> bonus of "point in time" restores), but that unfortunately, didn't help.
>>
>> /Steve
>> ---
>> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Bobby R Windle wrote:
>>
>>> Any one have any creative ideas of how I can get faster backups from a
>>> windows server.
>>>
>>> We are running Lotus Notes on a Windows Intel box. The server is a
>> Compaq
>>> G5.
>>> We are backing up 400 - 500 GB every night of mail files. The daily &
>>> weekly backups are doing
>>> disk backup - data de-duplication. The backup through put is 6 mb/sec to
>>> 6.5/mb/sec.
>>> The monthly backups are going to LTO2 tape. Getting may be 7 mb/sec to
>>> tape.
>>>
>>> Either way backups are taking to long. ( 16 -18 hours ).
>>> Any one have any creative ways I can get backups in a shorter window?
>>> Looking for some
>>> ideas to get the window down by 50% - 75%.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore & associates, Inc.
>>> Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin
>>> work: 302 292 4026
>>> cell : 302 588 7374
>>> bwindle AT wlgore DOT com | http://www.gore.com
>>>
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