Veritas NetBackup™ for Lotus Notes Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.3.0.1, 8.3, 8.2, 8.1.2, 8.1.1, 8.1)
  1. Introduction to NetBackup for Lotus Notes
    1.  
      About NetBackup for Lotus Notes
    2.  
      About the features for NetBackup for Lotus Notes
    3.  
      About supported Lotus Notes database configurations
    4. About the Lotus Notes database files that can be backed up
      1.  
        About database files supported by NetBackup for Lotus Notes
      2.  
        About Lotus database transaction logs
    5.  
      About Lotus database transaction logging styles
    6.  
      About recycling Lotus database transaction log extents
    7.  
      About Lotus Notes backup operations
    8.  
      About Lotus Notes restore operations
  2. Installing NetBackup for Lotus Notes
    1.  
      Planning the installation of NetBackup for Lotus Notes
    2.  
      Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
    3.  
      NetBackup server and client requirements
    4.  
      Lotus Notes server software requirements
    5.  
      About the license for NetBackup for Lotus Notes
    6.  
      Specifying the Lotus Notes home path (UNIX)
    7.  
      (UNIX or Linux) About adding new Lotus Notes installations
  3. Configuring NetBackup for Lotus Notes
    1.  
      About configuring NetBackup for Lotus Notes
    2. Configuring Lotus fast restores
      1.  
        About Lotus fast restore configuration recommendations
      2.  
        About the transaction log cache path
      3.  
        About the maximum number of logs to restore
    3. Defining properties for a Lotus Notes client
      1.  
        Defining properties for a Lotus Notes client from the NetBackup Administration Console
      2.  
        Defining the properties for a Lotus Notes client from the Windows registry
      3.  
        Defining properties for a Lotus Notes client in the bp.conf file
      4.  
        Lotus Notes properties
    4. About configuring a backup policy for a Lotus Notes database
      1.  
        Adding a new NetBackup for Lotus Notes policy
      2.  
        About policy attributes
      3. Adding schedules to a NetBackup for Lotus Notes policy
        1.  
          About schedule properties
        2.  
          NetBackup for Lotus Notes backup types
      4.  
        Adding clients to a policy
      5. Adding backup selections to a Lotus Notes policy
        1.  
          Adding directives to the Lotus Notes backup selections list
        2.  
          Adding Lotus databases to the backup selections list
      6.  
        About directives in the backup selections list for Lotus Notes policies
      7.  
        About backups of Windows network shared folders and UNIX NFS directories
      8.  
        About excluding Lotus Notes databases from backups
      9.  
        About backups of Lotus database links and directory links
    5.  
      Configuring a backup policy for Lotus Notes database supporting files
    6.  
      Performing a manual backup
  4. Performing backups and restore of Lotus Notes databases
    1.  
      About performing backups and restores of Lotus Notes databases
    2. About performing user-directed backups of a Lotus Notes database
      1.  
        General Options tab
      2.  
        Lotus Notes Options tab
      3.  
        Performing a user-directed backup of a Lotus database
    3. About performing a Lotus Notes database restore
      1.  
        General tab
      2.  
        Lotus Notes tab
      3.  
        Restoring a Lotus database
      4.  
        Restoring linked databases or directories and manually recreating the link file
      5.  
        Restoring linked databases or directories and the link file
    4.  
      Redirecting a Lotus Notes restore to a different client
    5.  
      About restoring individual Lotus Notes documents or mail messages
    6.  
      Recovering the Lotus Notes environment
  5. Domino clustering
    1.  
      About Domino clustering components
    2.  
      Backing up a Domino replicated or clustered environment
    3. About the restore and recovery in a Domino replicated or clustered environment
      1.  
        Example of clustered environment with four Domino servers
      2.  
        Example of clustered environment with three Domino servers
  6. Domino partitioned servers
    1.  
      About Domino partitioned servers
    2.  
      About performing backups in a Domino partitioned server environment
    3.  
      About restoring a Domino partitioned server environment
  7. Domino server multiple installations (UNIX or Linux)
    1.  
      About Domino server multiple installations
    2.  
      About configuring NetBackup for a multiple Domino server environment
    3.  
      About backups in a multiple Domino server environment
    4.  
      About restores a multiple Domino server environment
  8. Troubleshooting NetBackup for Lotus Notes
    1. About NetBackup for Lotus Notes debug logging
      1.  
      2.  
        Debug logs for NetBackup for Lotus Notes backup operations
      3.  
        Debug logs for NetBackup for Lotus Notes restore operations
      4.  
        Setting the debug level on a UNIX client
      5.  
        Setting the debug level on a NetBackup for Lotus Notes Windows client
    2. About NetBackup status reports
      1.  
        Viewing the progress report of a NetBackup for Lotus Notes operation

Example of clustered environment with four Domino servers

The environment is a Domino clustered environment with four Domino servers as members of the Domino cluster. Server A is identified as your backup server and runs archive-style transaction logging. Servers B, C, and D run circular or linear-style logging. To provide load balancing across all the servers, replicas of all databases exist on all four servers in your Domino cluster. A successful full backup of all databases was completed earlier in the week. Successful incremental backups of the archival-style transaction logs are completed every four hours, with the last one completing two hours ago. At 2:30 P.M., a user complains that the database acme.nsf is corrupted, while they modified the database on server C over the last 30 minutes. Unfortunately, because the environment is a Domino cluster environment, the corruption is replicated to all four member servers. The users state that the database was in a consistent state when they began to modify the database.

To restore a database to a consistent state do the following:

  • On server A, perform a point-in-time recovery of the database acme.nsf. Select the database acme.nsf from the last successful backup of the database (for example, a full backup that was completed successfully earlier in the week). Begin the restore.

  • On the Lotus Notes tab of the Restore Marked Files dialog box, select the Assign new database instance ID and replica ID option. Select the Recover database(s) to specified point in time option. Specify today's date at 2:00 P.M. (the time that the user started to modify the database) as the point-in-time for recovery.

  • After the restore or recovery is successful, a version of acme.nsf from 2:00 P.M. today should exist on server. Verify the consistency of acme.nsf on server A. If all is as expected, from server A create new replicas of acme.nsf on servers B, C, and D. Cluster replication should now be functional on servers A, B, C, and D, with a consistent version of acme.nsf.

More Information

About the restore and recovery in a Domino replicated or clustered environment

About Domino partitioned servers

Example of clustered environment with three Domino servers