Re: Save-while-active of QUSRSYS versus Management Central

We are having similar problems. We are using V4R5, with BRMS. Latest group PTF
for BRMS installed.
When using BRMS to backup active Domino Server, our shared mail files are not
backed up. To backup we must do the following:
1. Stop Domino Server
2. Release IFS Lock on the shared mail file
3. Copy shared mail file to the root, giving it a new name without a .nsf
extension
4. Start domino server
5. run BRMS save for active domino server.

Also, we cannot save some IFS data that resides on DASD using hardware
compression. We must unmount the file system for the IFS directory before the
save (which should save active files), run the save, then mount the file system.
If the Lotus archiving program runs while the file system is unmounted, it will
create a new archive file that will only be visible when the file system is
unmounted.

It makes it extremely hard to provide 24x7 when a "save while active" is really 
a
"save most of the stuff when active".

Bob

rob@dekko.com wrote:

> Thought I'd forward this on to you.  Had to modify backup program on GDWEB:
> ------------- 9 data records excluded --------------------------------
> /* 02/14/01 by R.Berendt, CDP   GDS,LLC                             */
> /*          We were getting message CPF377F while doing a           */
> /*          save-while-active of QUSRSYS.  Job causing problems was */
> /*          QYPSSRV - Management Central.  Opened pmr 67809,500     */
> /*          with IBM.  IBM recognized this problem and recommended  */
> /*          that we stop/start the tcp server for management        */
> /*          central.                                                */
> ------------ 94 data records excluded --------------------------------
>
> /*
>  |   Stop tcp server for management central to avoid message CPF377F
>  |   while doing save-while-active of QUSRSYS.
> */
> ENDTCPSVR *MGTC
> ------------- 8 data records excluded --------------------------------
>
> /*
>  |   Start tcp server for management central after doing
>  |   save-while-active of QUSRSYS.
> */
> STRTCPSVR *MGTC
> ------------ 47 data records excluded ------------------
>
> I am not a big fan of throwing in MONMSG's everywhere.  I am seeing too
> much code with them and frankly I doubt the integrity of the data on some
> of our backups and production programs due to this.
>
> Rob Berendt
>
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