With faster data encryption and concurrent Domino backups

Robot/SAVE 11.06 includes two major enhancements that speed data encryption and allow you to perform concurrent Domino backups.

Faster data encryption
After gaining some experience with our customers’ real-world data, we found a way to encrypt data much faster. Customers who use the highest levels of encryption and have large files will see the biggest performance improvements. If you haven’t tried Robot/SAVE 11 yet, now is great time to give it a whirl.

Robot/SAVE encryption is very flexible, allowing you to specify the level of data encryption to use and the data to be encrypted. You can choose to encrypt entire libraries, individual objects within a library, or object lists.

When you choose to use encryption on a whole library or objects within a library, Robot/SAVE backs up the library to a save file (for speed) and then encrypts the appropriate data as the data is saved to tape. When you implement encryption, you may see Robot/SAVE using more disk space than it did in the past. If you don’t have enough disk space to support this setup and you have a stable, repeating list of objects to be encrypted, you can create an object list for your encrypted objects and omit those objects from the library backup. This will improve speed and decrease disk space demands.

Concurrent Domino backups
Robot/SAVE now allows multiple Domino servers to be backed up concurrently. Concurrent backups might be the solution if you have been unable to back up all your servers within your allocated backup window.

Robot/SAVE allows only one backup set from each backup class to run at at time. Therefore, to set up this feature, you must create a separate Robot/SAVE class and set for each Domino server you want to back up concurrently. Each set that will be running a concurrent backup should use a different tape drive to avoid hardware conflicts. You then can schedule the backups to run at the same time.