TSM for Mail for OS/400 can perform hot backup of Domino databases. It also uses the api, similar to BRMS. You don't need BRMS if you are only backing up Domino on the AS/400, you just need TSM for Mail for OS/400 and the api (comes on the TSM for Mail CD).
Think of it as 2 separate products/clients just like the other platforms: BRMS via api to TSM - for filesystem equivalent backup (user libraries and objects, etc.) TSM for Mail for OS/400 via api to TSM - Hot Domino database and log backups ______________________________ John Monahan Senior Consultant Enterprise Solutions Computech Resources, Inc. Office: 952-833-0930 ext 109 Cell: 952-221-6938 http://www.compures.com "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] UAPL.EDU> To Sent by: "ADSM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dist Stor cc Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU> Re: AS400 brms client 12/22/2003 12:40 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> Um. I'm clueless about the Domino part. However, there is a redbook on that, too: SG24-6937 (see Chapter 6, Backing up Domino with BRMS) -----Original Message----- From: Kent Monthei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 9:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AS400 brms client My understanding is that BRMS itself cannot perform hot backup of Domino 6 databases. As Wanda stated, the TSM api for AS400 only implements a conduit from BRMS to a TSM server. Since it must be used with BRMS, it doesn't implement hot backup for Domino 6. That's a key/critical difference from Tivoli Data Protection for Mail api's on other platforms. Wanda, if I'm wrong, please correct me (in detail, please) ! Kent Monthei GlaxoSmithKline "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 19-Dec-2003 15:50 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ADSM-L cc: Subject: Re: AS400 brms client I have never done this myself, but I recently helped someone with a LOT of BRMS experience get the API working to send data to TSM. You are correct, there is no "native" TSM client for AS400, you run BRMS and install a TSM API so that TSM serves as your backstore for BRMS, instead of local tape drives. You must get BRMS up and working first. And that's not so simple. BRMS works more like a "traditional" backup and restore product, with full dumps followed by incrementals. BRMS working with the API is a lot like one of the TDP for Oracle/SQL/Exchange etc. products working through the API; all the version control is done by BRMS, not TSM; TSM just looks like a peculiar tape driver to BRMS. We actually found several good redbooks; one of them just published last October: Integrating Backup Recovery and Media Services and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager on the IBM eServer iSeries Server, SG24-7031-00 Backup Recovery and Media Services for OS/400: More Practical Information, REDP-0508-00 Backup Recovery and Media Services for OS/400: A Practical Approach, SG24-4840-01 The first one talks about setting up a TSM SERVER on iseries; but it also has a chapter on setting up BRMS as an API CLIENT, which is the chapter you need. But again, you must get BRMS working first. Hope that is some help. Wanda Prather Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 443-778-8769 "Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" - Dilbert/Scott Adams -----Original Message----- From: storage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AS400 brms client We are trying to backup an as400 to our TSM server on W2k. On the as400 are the following: DB2 databases Domino 6 data other than savesys files The only redbook that outlines anything remotely close to what we are trying to achieve is the TSM on AS400 - it has a very small section on BRMS client. This leads me to believe that BRMS in full must be installed. I am not a 400 person but the resources I do have access to have never done this. Anyone with experience on this greatly appreciated. Sam