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A: Yes, One customer is getting about 183 GB/HR (800GB of Domino Data) on V5R4 with 3592 drives. They have a model 570 with 24GB of memory. Another customer is getting about 85GB/HR (700GB of Domino Data) on V5R1 with 3590 drives. They have a S40-2280 Processor and 24GB of memory. Another customer with an IBM i 840 server is getting about 68-70 GB/HR of domino data with 3590E drives and about 70 GB/HR of data with 3580 LTO-1 drives on V5R3.
Q: Should I expect 3X compression of data?
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If your server is being backed up during off hours when server use is low, you can set the group value higher to speed up the backup operation, while keeping the recovery time reasonable. The maximum group value is 120.
Set up BRMS to use Asysncbring to help improve IFS save performance
Q: Why on backing up to a TSM server do I need to lower the number of databases in a group?
A: The operating system had a command size limitation which is extended with 5722-SS1 PTF SI02895. In addition, a V5R1 BRMS PTF (SI03722) allows the group value to be set as high as 120. No PTFs are required in this case for releases V5R2 and beyond.
Q: Why do I have to keep hitting enter when I restore Lotus server databases using the WRKMEDIBRM command?
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