Re: Saving Domino

There are far more qualified individuals to answer your question, but I
will throw in my attempt.  It's been quite some time since we investigated
which files were necessary to restore our Domino server, but this is the
list that we developed / back up every night.

>From the IFS:

/lotus/domino/data/*
/qibm/userdata/lotus/*

>From the libraries:

QNOTES
QUSRNOTES

Our strongest resource was the redbook for this purpose.  I don't recall
the name offhand, but you should be able to find it with some searching at
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com.  Good luck.

Patrick



                                                                           
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For starters, I'm not well versed in Domino but I'm trying to learn.  We
are planning to upgrade to Domino 6 soon from V5.  Our current nightly
backup backs up the /Notes folder in the IFS which gets our e-mail and
other databases.  It uses BRMS and does a SAVDOMBRM.  Since management
wants the system available 24/7 we rarely do anything else to it.  For this
upgrade we want to make sure that we save any non-database objects that
aren't part of our nightly backup.  The upgrade is going to be done on a
weekend after the regular nightly backup runs.  If we also do a SAVSYS and
SAVLIB LIB(*NONSYS) I would think that should cover the bases.

>From what I can tell these are the libraries that we are after:
QNOTES
QNOTESADVC
QNOTESAPI
QNOTESCPP
QNOTESHTST
QNOTESINT
QNOTESLSKT

In the interest of time we are trying to avoid a GO SAVE-21 although we do
want to back up what we might need.  This is running on a 270 at V5R1 and
the nightly backup takes about 7.5 hours to run.  We will be doing a V5R3
upgrade a week after this and will save the entire system at that time.  Is
there anything else that we should be backing up for this?  Thanks.

Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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