RE: BRMS-Can it speed up our save?

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

Rob, Bob, Fritz, Evan, et al...

WOW...!

You da MAN...!  You da MAN...!

(I figured somebody out there was doing these kinds of things.)

I've only followed this thread loosely, but I had the understanding that BCC
(or perhaps some other 3rd party) offered tape drives with FULL parallel
saves.. like 3 or 4 years ago...  I haven't looked into this lately,
however.

Also, I haven't followed developments in SAN closely (don't see much
value-add for iSeries)...  But I did see where mainframe SHARK has added, or
will have very shortly, high-speed disk-copy (high-speed disk-mirroring?)
for backup purposes.  Don't know if or how that translates to iSeries.  I
understand SHARK is, or soon will be, available for iSeries, but probably
gonna cost out pretty high...

Finally, Rob...  I thought I saw something about high-speed fiber-connect up
to xxx meters (but I think less than the 1/2 mile distance recommended to
avoid tornados).

jt


: -----Original Message-----
: From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
: [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of rob@dekko.com
: Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:25 AM
: To: midrange-l@midrange.com
: Subject: RE: BRMS-Can it speed up our save?
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: We've taken the tack that taking our Domino servers down to due a
: backup is
: a good test of our clustering.  For explanation - we have two Domino 400's
: involved here.  Every night we drop the one and it's 8 partitions of
: Domino.  Then Domino clustering automatically routes them over to
: the other
: 400 and it's 8 partitions.  Based on these 'tests' we've found
: some grounds
: for improvement, and have acted upon them.  Nope, we'll keep bringing them
: down.
:
: Although for DR purposes, there is some pressure to move the backup 400
: more than 2 feet from the primary.  And last week was the first
: week we ran
: with all of our 400's in one room.
:
: Rob Berendt
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: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
: safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
: Benjamin Franklin
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:                     "Fritz Hayes"
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: A neat thing about BRMS is that it can use the "Incremental backup
: forever" architecture.  A relational database keeps track of all the
: changes and helps to keep the recovery tapes organized.  The process
: reduces both backup times and recovery times.
:
: This is in contrast to the "Grandfather, Father, Son" strategy, where
: recovery is the latest full backup plus the latest incremental saves.
: It's a major change in backup/recovery concepts.
:
: Doesn't TSM use BRMS to perform AS/400 backups?  It (BRMS) is the best
: way to backup Domino database without taking down Domino!
:
: Best Regards
:
: Fritz Hayes
: Atwater Associates
: 503-636-5914
:
: |
: |What I am hoping for is a way to use both 3590's simultaneously, in
: |restricted state, to do our saves.  Is there a way to do this?  We are
: |running V5R1.  We have BRMS but haven't gotten around to using it.
: |
: |If BRMS is the magic pill then how do we go about implementing that?
: RTFM
: |is acceptable, if you believe that, and point to good links.  I've
: heard
: |that BRMS, under V5R1, is a cinch to get working.  Much different than
: |previous releases.
: |
: |Rob Berendt
: |
: |==================
: |"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
: |safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
: |Benjamin Franklin