Enterprise Messaging Notes

Through the extraordinary, timely and authoritative helpfulness of Steve Watts at IBM engineering, and some additional help from Symantec, the issues here with unexpected restore behaviors using archive-style TxL's 8.5 and Veritas net backup (so we can utilize DAOS at some  point) are much better understood, and have turned out to be issues on both sides of the vendor equation.  Steve indicated that issue had occurred for at least one other IBM customer, and a fix can be had by asking for a hot fix (spr SWAS7X5675), or when the fix is rolled into 8.5.2.  Symantec provided an updated binary which "ensures that the Domino transaction logs are left behind in NetBackup's temporary cache until the entire restore attempt is complete.  This would ensure that TXNs are not being pulled from tape over and over again".

I can't say enough good things about Steve Watt's monitoring of the community posts here and the notes.net forums and willingness to help out, respond to posts and coordinate getting the right nuggets to the right people.  This is the 2nd time in the past couple months where he went above and beyond for us, and provided true value beyond the normal support realm.

The net is we can again resume testing towards DAOS etc when time allows.

Thanks Steve!!