Thanks Del. I was aware of the file space rename and I did consider leaving
the old name there for 45 days  (don't ask), but as you said we will be
testing this before we apply the procedure to any production server. I was
just looking for a head start.

 Thanks again for the information.

 - Brian






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Brian,

If you are renaming the TSM NODENAME and the Domino server name,
all of your old backups (database and log files) will remain
on the TSM server... untouched.

Are you planning to rename the filespaces too?
TDP for Domino filespaces have the Domino Server in the name,
and so, if you do not rename the filespaces, those filespaces
will remain on the TSM server forever and not expire.
If you rename the filespaces to match the Domino server name,
(be careful of the case that you rename the spaces to because
the Domino server name is stored case sensitive on the TSM Server)
then you might be able make this work seemlessly.
I haven't tried it myself... so you may want to try this out
with a test server first.

If you want to make it easy... you could just keep the
old data around by not renaming the filespaces, run a new
full backup of all of your Domino databases, and when
your are far enough into your new renamed server backup cycle,
you could delete the old data from the TSM Server.

Thanks,

Del

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IBM Corporation
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> If you rename the node in TSM this will simply force a new full backup to
> which subsequent transaction log archives will be associated with.  The
> transaction logs from the old backups remain until the databases to which
> they are associated expire.  You need to run regular INACTIVATELOGS
> commands to expire the older logs.
>
> Marc.

>> "Brian L. Nick" <BRIAN.NICK AT PHOENIXWM DOT COM>
>>
>>  We are currently backing up our NT Lotus Domino environment using TDP
and
>> our e-mail group wants to rename some of the Domino servers. So here are
>> my
>> questions, can I simply rename the node as defined to TSM and if yes how
>> does TDP handle the transactional logs for Domino? The way the rename
>> process was presented to me was that the transaction log will be deleted
>> and recreated. I'm not a Domino expert but I have concerns regarding the
>> deletion of the existing transaction logs. We have a process in place
for
>> renaming TSM clients but this is our first TDP for Domino client rename.
>> Just wondering if anyone has done this and any problems or gotchas that
I
>> should be aware of.
>>
>>  Any information that you can provide would be appreciated.