Re: Understanding our BRMS Domino backup

Dave, 

we've got a 3570 too, and that's what we do the system backup with -
the rest is with an ultrium LTO on fiber.

can't use the ultrium for system backup, because you can't ipl from fiber.

good luck,

Rick


On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:23:21 -0500, daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> Rick,
> 
> Thanks for the confirmation of the save-while-active.  I wasn't sure
> because it seems that we've had an issue or two in the past about restoring
> somebody's mail database from the previous night and had to go the the
> tapes from the night before that.  I don't recall why but it got me
> wondering if it had been a case of the file not getting saved.
> 
> It takes 7 hours to save just Domino and we're filling up 10 tapes on our
> 3570 tape drive.  We've got a new drive on order but it isn't here yet.
> The machine is a 270 with 113GB of disk.  We're getting things ready to do
> a V5R3 upgrade on it in January.
> 
> 
> Dave Parnin