Kind of true, but the Notes DB agent will backup transaction logs. In
theory the logs can be replayed to restore a db. I haven't had the
opportunity to test this in realtime (thankfully) but our Notes people
tell me it should work. 
Bob Grabbe
Dominos Pizza LLC
grabbeb AT dominos DOT com


>>> "Kennedy, Jeffrey" <jkennedy AT qualcomm DOT com> 5/7/03 12:01:38 PM >>>
If I recall correctly, there is no way to backup a Lotus Notes db in
online mode using anything other than its internal replication. 
Meaning
no backup software agent can do it.  The only way to get a complete
and
error free backup is to replicate to a master Notes db, shutdown the
master, and back it up.

 

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

 

~JK

 

-----Original Message-----
From: ligong_qiu AT sina DOT com [mailto:ligong_qiu AT sina DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 12:07 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
Subject: [Veritas-bu] when backup Lotus Notes, get file sharing error

 

Hi all,

 

I'm using NetBackup4.5 to backup Lotus Notes 5.0.4 on NT4.0. Got error
in bpbkar.log as following, and some file can not be backup:

 

06:54:01.548 PM: [228.229] <228> nbex_DebugLog: ERR - NBLNtoFINDDATA()
NSFDbOpenExtended('e:\lotus\domino\Data\mail\Powertrain\ptp1714.nsf')
Failed: 0x20D:This database is currently being used by someone else. 
In
order to share a Notes database, all users must use a Domino Server
instead of a File Server.
06:54:01.678 PM: [228.229] <228> nbex_DebugLog: ERR - NBLNtoFINDDATA()
NSFDbOpenExtended('e:\lotus\domino\Data\mail\Powertrain\ptp1744.nsf')
Failed: 0x20D:This database is currently being used by someone else. 
In
order to share a Notes database, all users must use a Domino Server
instead of a File Server.

Anyone can help me? Thanks in advance.


Thanks and best regards.
-----------------------------------------
Richard Qiu (Ligong)