One slight clarification...
You can use FlashCopy Manager on Windows with any hardware.
You are not limited to IBM hardware.
Thanks,
Del
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 01/14/2013
04:19:11 PM:
> From: "Prather, Wanda" <Wanda.Prather AT ICFI DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu,
> Date: 01/14/2013 04:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Backing Up Lotus Domino Servers
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>
>
> I think it depends on your environment, your hardware, the size of
> your mail servers.
>
> The original use of Flashcopy manager (this is about the third name
> for the product - it was originally something like "TSM for
> hardware") was to facilitate use of snapshots of volumes taken with
> IBM disk hardware. And that part only works for IBM hardware - San
> Volume Controller(SVC), DS8000, etc. (not EMC or Hitachi disk, as
> they have their own snapshot software). The idea there is that you
> get a quick snapshot (based on a copy-on-write trackmap, I think) of
> the volume, then do the backup from the copy, not the primary.
>
> Depending on your environment, you might also consider it an
> advantage to be able to do an almost-instant-restore of that backup
> from the disk copy, rather than from tape. And with Exchange+VSS,
> at least, you can keep multiple versions of the VSS backups on disk,
> in addition to the tape copies.
>
> TSM for Mail with Exchange 2010 requires the use of VSS snapshots
> for the backups. TSM for Mail with Exchange 2007 it's an option,
> not a requirement. But even though it's a VSS snapshot, my 3
> customers don't keep the data on disk, it goes straight to tape anyway.
>
> So if you have a huge Lotus environment and IBM disk-snapshot-
> capable hardware, I'd look into it, see if you can leverage that
> disk capability.
>
> If you just have a garden-variety modest size Lotus environment
> where you don't have issues with time windows doing your backups,
> and you just want a typical weekly-full-to-tape plus daily
> incrementals, maybe no advantage at all.
>
> W
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
> Behalf Of white jeff
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 3:52 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing Up Lotus Domino Servers
>
> Hi
>
> I have been asked to implement a solution for backup of Lotus Domino
> Servers using TSM. At this moment in time, i am unsure if they will
> be running this is on Windows, Unix or Linux.
>
> I have done this previously and was intending to implement a similar
> solution: Weekly full backups, daily incremental backups and
> frequent transaction log backups, using domdsmc commands.
>
> However, a colleague suggested using Flashcopy Manager, something i
> am unfamiliar with at the moment. Having looked at the
> documentation, i can see that Flashcopy v3.1 for Windows can create
> VSS snapshot backups of applications such as Lotus Domino Server.
>
> I attended a presentation in Germany in 2011 where Del Hoobler
> talked about TSM for Mail and specifically, Lotus Domino Server,
> using the techniques i had previously used. This was my preferred
method.
>
> So, TSM for Mail or via Flashcopy. What are the benefits, if any, of
> using Flashcopy?
>
> Thanks
>
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