Re: Lotus Notes Backups
1995-11-20 04:32:36
Jerry Lawson says:
> We have been working with the Lotus Notes agent to backup our Notes data
> bases.
> We have installed the OS/2 client on the Notes servers, and backed up all of
> the
> application and operating system code and files. We used the Notes Agent to
> backup the actual Notes data bases (.NSF) files.
>
> The Notes administrator wanted to know what is being done with the Template
> files - *.NTF and *.NMF files. He thought that they should have been backed
> up
> by the notes client. Not knowing Lotus Notes very well, I could not answer
> any
> of his questions. Is he right, and they should have been included, or should
> they be included in the OS/2 client incremental.
>
> BTW, we did the backup with a command similar to the following:
>
> DSMNOTES INCR c:\Notedata\*
I'm pretty sure the Notes agent picks up only *.NSF files. Are the *.NTF and
*.NMF databases? If not, I would think they would be handled by the regular
OS/2 backup/archive client.
We've set up our Notes server backups such that the OS/2 backup/archive
client with an INCLUDE statement that looks something like this:
INCLUDE D:\NOTES\*.NSF EVERY_THIRTY_DAYS
The "EVERY_THIRTY_DAYS" management class has a frequency of 30 days. This
way I get a regular ADSM backup of the notes database once a month (assuming
it's changed). Otherwise I use the Notes agent to perform incrementals on a
daily basis.
The purpose of the monthly OS/2 backup/archive client backup is so that
I have a baseline from where I can subsequently restore the changed/new
documents in the database. This will (presumably) help speed up recovery.
Andy Raibeck
Connecticut Mutual
203-987-3521
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