[geeks] DST hell

[Eric Railine]

On 3/11/07, Dan Duncan <danduncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was working at a company that used Lotus Notes for email and Legato
> for backups and
> they were in the process of transitioning their data center to the
> parent company which used Tivoli for backups.  We were in a meeting
> with them while they described their backup
> process for the mail server.  They backed up the mail database files
> as files, rather than using the module for Tivoli.  I asked if this
> worked for them.  "Well, it works pretty good except for 1 or 2 times
> out of 10."   So, basically, a 10-20% failure rate was apparently ok.

They must have been doing something very wrong, or had bad equipment
for their backups.  I ran Legato backups for Lotus Notes servers for
years and did many, many restores of various databases - whether
mailboxes or otherwise, and I don't recall ever having a problem with
restoring one of those databases or using the database after the
restore.  Legato is a good product IMO.

-Eric