Veritas NetBackup™ for Lotus Notes Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (9.0.0.1, 9.0)
  1. Introduction to NetBackup for Lotus Notes;
    1.  
      About the features for NetBackup for Lotus Notes
    2.  
      About supported Lotus Notes database configurations
    3.  
      About the Lotus Notes database files that can be backed up
  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 Notes fast restores
      1.  
        About the transaction log cache path
      2.  
        About the maximum number of logs to restore
    3. Configuring host properties for a Lotus Notes client
      1.  
        Lotus Notes properties
    4. About configuring a backup policy for a Lotus Notes database
      1.  
        Adding a 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 Domino backup selections list
        2.  
          Adding Notes databases to the backup selections list
      6.  
        About directives for Domino policies
      7.  
        About excluding Lotus Notes databases from backups
      8.  
        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. Performing a user-directed backup of a Lotus database
      1.  
        General Options tab
      2.  
        Lotus Notes Options tab
    2. 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
    3.  
      Redirecting a Lotus Notes restore to a different client
    4.  
      About restoring individual Lotus Notes documents or mail messages
    5.  
      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.  
        Enabling the debug logs for a NetBackup for Lotus Notes client automatically (Windows)
      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
    3.  
      About Notes restore operations
  9.  
    Index

About the features for NetBackup for Lotus Notes

NetBackup for Lotus Notes provides online backups and restores of Lotus Notes databases and individual mailboxes when Domino server has been installed. This capability is provided as an add-on or extension to the NetBackup client software.

Table: Features of NetBackup for Lotus Notes describes the features of the NetBackup for Lotus Notes.

Table: Features of NetBackup for Lotus Notes

Feature

Description

Tight NetBackup integration

Tight integration with NetBackup indicates the following:

  • An administrator already familiar with NetBackup can easily configure backups and restores Lotus Notes databases and transaction log extents.

  • Features and strengths of the NetBackup product suite are also available with NetBackup for Lotus Notes. These features include software data compression, scheduled and user-directed operations, and multiple data stream backups. Many of these features are described in detail in the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.

Central administration

Administrators can define Lotus Notes policies, back up and restore Lotus Notes databases, and back up and restore archive-style transaction log extents from a central location.

Media management

Lotus Notes database backups are saved directly to a wide variety of storage devices that the NetBackup master server supports.

Online backups

Lotus Notes databases, mailboxes, and transaction logs can be backed up without taking down the Domino server. This feature ensures the availability of Lotus Notes services and data during the backup.

Automated backups

Administrators can set up schedules for automatic, unattended backups for local or remote clients across the network. These backups can be full or incremental and are managed entirely by the NetBackup server from a central location. The administrator also can manually back up clients.

Restore operations

An administrator that uses the NetBackup client can browse Lotus Notes database and mailbox backups and select the ones to restore.

Redirected restores of databases

Backups can be restored a different path.

Transaction logging

NetBackup for Lotus Notes takes advantage of the ability of Domino to log transactions against one or more databases and mailboxes. Transaction logging may be circular style, linear style, or archive style.

Point in time recovery

Transaction logging enables NetBackup for Lotus Notes to perform a point-in-time recovery of a logged databases and mailboxes.

Compression of backups

Compression increases backup performance over the network and reduces the size of the backup image that is stored on the disk or tape. This feature is only supported for

Checkpoint restart for backup jobs

With checkpoint restart, NetBackup retries a failed backup from the last checkpoint rather than restart the entire job. With this feature, the NetBackup administrator can also pause a job and resume it later.

Backups of Domino Partitioned Server

Administrators can back up databases from Domino partitioned servers.

(UNIX or Linux) Backups of multiple Domino installations

Administrators can back up databases within multiple Domino installations.