Backing up from your Mimix HA machine

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

I ran the following by Lakeview support:
<snip>
Suppose your source machine is GDIHQ and your target machine is GDIHQ2. I 
am hearing that we should forego backups on GDIHQ and we should be backing 
up from GDIHQ2 as to not disrupt our line of business.
Do you have any documentation on the "best practices" of doing that? Like, 
do I shut down Mimix enough to free the locks and allow us to perform our 
backups but not so far as to kill the remote journals from still getting 
their entries?
We want to use BRMS. 
</snip>

And their reply was
<snip>
Yes, lots of installations do their backups on their HA systems. There 
really isn't an official "Best Practice" recommendation, but personally, I 
would set it up just as you describe. Specifically, you can do:
<mimix>/ENDDG DGDFN(*ALL) PRC(*DBAPY) ENDOPT(*IMMED) ENDRJLNK(*NO)

at the beginning of your backup process, then restart the MIMIX processes 
with:

STRDG DGDFN(*ALL) PRC(*DBAPY) 
</snip>

Sounds pretty straight forward to me.  Does anyone have any comments or 
suggestions?


Rob Berendt