ADSM-L

Re: TDP Domino

2002-02-19 09:55:10
Subject: Re: TDP Domino
From: Shawn Tullier <Shawn.Tullier AT LAITRAM DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:45:06 -0600
Geoff,

We have been running TDP for domino for almost  a year now.  Here are some
answers to your questions:

>>Does anyone running this have a "best practices" setup?

We have 3 different Domino Servers being backed up differently.  Our Domino
Web Server (Not many changes) gets a full "selective" backup every night,
no transaction logging.  Our Domino Development Server (Slightly more
changes) gets an "incremental" backup every night, a full "selective
backup" once a month, and a transaction log archive once a day.  Our Domino
Mail/Replication Hub server (Plenty of changes) gets an "incremental"
backup every night, a full "selective backup" once a month, and a
transaction log archive every 6 hours.

>>How is the TSM server set up to expire old data? Or is it done via the
client?

We decided to create 3 different management classes for the data: one for
our Product Related Databases (storage retention 10 years) one for our Mail
Databases (storage retention 6 months) and one for our System Databases
(log files, etc.  storage retention 2 versions).  Expiration is handled by
the server.

>>Do you have any options files I can take a look at?

Here is an example of our daily incremental options file:

COMMMethod        TCPip
TCPPort           1500
TCPServeraddress  0.0.0.0 (masked to protect the innocent)
TCPWindowsize     63
TCPBuffSize       32

NODename          PISCES.TDP

COMPRESSIon       Off

PASSWORDAccess    Generate

SCHEDMODE             Polling

* Created by Shawn Tullier
* This opt file for incremental database backups and archive of transaction
logs.
* Modified 3/25/01 14:40

INCLUDE *.NTF STRUCTURE
INCLUDE *.NTF.DATA STRUCTURE
INCLUDE *.NSF STRUCTURE
INCLUDE *.NSF.DATA STRUCTURE

EXCLUDE *.BOX
EXCLUDE ACTION\...\*
EXCLUDE ADSMRESTORE\...\*
EXCLUDE DOC\...\*
EXCLUDE DOMINO\...\*
EXCLUDE LOCALADDRBOOKS\...\*
EXCLUDE "LOTUS KNOWLEDGEBASES\...\*"

INCLUDE CORP\...\* PRODUCTDATA
INCLUDE INTRALOX\...\* PRODUCTDATA
INCLUDE MACHY\...\* PRODUCTDATA
INCLUDE MSHOP\...\* PRODUCTDATA
INCLUDE STAIR\...\* PRODUCTDATA

INCLUDE MAIL\...\* MAIL
INCLUDE MAILARCHIVE\...\* MAIL

* Include all transaction logs
INCLUDE S*.TXN PRODUCTDATA

>>do you have any sample files for each of the types of backups you do?

Here are copies of the different batch commands that we created:

log archive ->

set dom_dir="C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\domino"
cd /d %dom_dir%
echo Current date is: >> domarc.log
date /t < NUL >> domarc.log
echo Current time is: >> domarc.log
time /t < NUL >> domarc.log
start /B domdsmc archivelog /adsmoptfile=dsm.opt /logfile=domasch.log >>
domarc.log

daily incremental ->

set dom_dir="C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\domino"
cd /d %dom_dir%
echo Current date is: >> dominc.log
date /t < NUL >> dominc.log
echo Current time is: >> dominc.log
time /t < NUL >> dominc.log
start /B domdsmc incremental * /subdir=yes /adsmoptfile=dsm.opt
/logfile=domisch.log >> dominc.log

montly selective ->

set dom_dir="C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\domino"
cd /d %dom_dir%
echo Current date is: >> domsel.log
date /t < NUL >> domsel.log
echo Current time is: >> domsel.log
time /t < NUL >> domsel.log
start /B domdsmc selective * /loggedonly /subdir=yes
/adsmoptfile=dsmsel.opt /logfile=domssch.log >> domsel.log

**A very important piece of advice, make sure to read Appendix G in the TDP
User's Guide that talks about recovering from the loss of the Transaction
Logs.  Ours got corrupted about 4 months ago, and I wasn't aware of the
delicateness of the situation.  It has taken 4 months to bring things back
to normal.

Hope this info helps,

Shawn Tullier
ITS Technical Design
Laitram Corporation
(504) 733 - 6000 x 1618
Shawn.Tullier AT Laitram DOT com
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