I would be extremely interested to hear as well.  The app admins here
are going to spend money on CYA, a Documentum specific backup software.
Not exactly an enterprise solution IMO.

~JK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-
> admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
> markjessup AT northwesternmutual DOT com
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 11:44 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Documentum DocBases
> 
> Just curious if others have experience backing up Documentum Docbases
> and if so, how do you do it and with what tools (Netbackup only).
> Documentum is a document management base which uses a docbase which
> consists of a standard database such as Oracle, SQL, or UDB which
holds
> metadata but then also has an associated storage area that holds all
of
> the documents.  The content storage area could be a huge amount of
small
> files totally GBs or TBs of storage.  The key is that when you backup
> this app, you need to backup both the database and the content at the
> same time to keep them in sync.  So I am curious how people are doing
> this today.  Are you using just Netbackup, Documentum specific tools
> such as CYA Hot Backup for Documentum, or hardware/software snapshots,
> etc.  Any information you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Jessup
> IS Manager, Enterprise Storage and Output Management
> Northwestern Mutual
> (414) 665-3968
> markjessup AT northwesternmutual DOT com
> 
>