Re: Stupid Question: BRMS Save While Active with Domino

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We are looking at getting BRMS/400 on one of our AS/400's so that we can
back up Lotus Domino without taking the service down. In the course of
looking at BRMS, I keep bumping in to a product called ADSTAR and one
called ADSM.  What are these products, and under what circumstances would I
need them?
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First off, I don't think this is a stupid question, my clients ask it
regularly.  Inside BRMS is the ability to do a save while active on a
Domino database while it is active.  You need both BRMS and Domino on the
same box.  Use the SAVDOMBRM command and it will save everything for you
without having to take down the Domino instance.  Works great!  (Thanks
Rochester....)   There is some documentation available from support line on
this topic.

ADSM , Adstar Distributed Storage Management, is an old product that is
used to back up several different types of servers and data.  It is now
repackaged as Tivoli.  You do not need this for what you want to do, BRMS
is the product you want.

If you have multiple iSeries servers, then you will need the additional
optional ($$$) portions of BRMS as well.  BRMS is a great product that some
folks just love to hate for some reason.  I don't think the learning curve
is all that steep for most installations.  A couple of days with the
manuals and some advise from an experienced user and your off and running.

Jim Oberholtzer
Senior Technical Architect
Computech Resources, Inc.
Phone:  262/785-8111
Fax:      262/785-8107