RE: BRMS-Can it speed up our save?

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