Re: Understanding our BRMS Domino backup

[rick baird <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

SAVDOMBRM does a save-while-active.  The way I understand it, it saves
all documents in the folder, and any that are active, will save a
'changed since save' copy of it.   I've never had to restore from
this, but It's supposed to work fine.

Does it take 7 hours to save domino?  or the entire system?

we just did an upgrade to v5r3 last weekend, and this is what we did:

4pm  - regular BRMS user library and IFS save (while active)
6pm  -  ended domino servers, brought system to restricted state,
saved *SYS, *IBM and SAVDOMBRM all servers.
7 or 7:30pm  - started upgrade.

the only reason we did the SAVDOMBRM in restricted state is so that it
would finish faster.  we had scheduled the downtime, and wanted to get
it over sooner than later.

hope this helps, 

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:32:20 -0500, daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> I think this is more of a BRMS question than Domino so I'm posting it
> here...
> 
> Everything I know about BRMS I've learned by poking around in it.  We have
> a nightly BRMS backup on our Domino server that was set up long ago by a
> guy at our parent company.  I'm assuming that it's only backing up our
> /Notes folder in the IFS but wanted to know for sure what it was doing.
> 
> The exit command is:
> QNOTES/SAVDOMBRM SERVER('NISCO_TPK_MAIL01') CTLGRP(QLTSSVR)
> 
> Since this corresponds to the folder /Notes/NISCO_TPK_MAIL01 I would guess
> that folder is what is being saved to tape and nothing else.
> 
> I ask because we want to do a semi-full save.  It takes over 7 hours for
> our nightly save and we can't take the system down for that long to do a GO
> SAVE-21.  Also, is it likely that BRMS will save someone's mail file or
> other database (in whatever the current state is at that time) if they have
> it open?  (i.e. Is it possible that our nighly backup isn't backing up
> everything?)  Since we are approaching a slow time over the holidays we
> want to take the system down, do a save, and load some PTF's.  Thanks.
> 
> Dave Parnin
> Nishikawa Standard Company
> Topeka, IN  46571
> daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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