Hi Farren, For long-term archival, you should still use the Data Protection for Domino client because you want to make sure that the databases being backed up have full integrity.
Many customers accomplish this by setting up a secondary TSM NODENAME like DOMSRV1_ARCHIVE and perform a monthly Data Protection for Domino backup using a different nodename with different policy setting to meet their longterm archival needs. Another thing you can look at is IBM DB2 CommonStore for Lotus Domino: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/commonstore/lotus/ Thanks, Del ---------------------------------------------------- Del Hoobler Tivoli Storage Manager Development IBM Corporation "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 01/26/2006 10:56:41 AM: > Hi Del > > OK, that all makes sense, but in this case where we are doing full backups > every weekend, and if we wanted to keep data for a year (at least) we are > going to end up with 52 full copies of the db in backup. Which again leads > me to think that the domino client may not be the best tool for long term > archive storage of data. Would I be right in thinking this, or is this the > way things are generally done with domino databases? > > All the best > > Farren