Veritas NetBackup™ for Lotus Notes Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to NetBackup for Lotus Notes
- About NetBackup for Lotus Notes
- About the features for NetBackup for Lotus Notes
- About supported Lotus Notes database configurations
- About the Lotus Notes database files that can be backed up
- About Lotus database transaction logging styles
- About recycling Lotus database transaction log extents
- About Lotus Notes backup operations
- About Lotus Notes restore operations
- Installing NetBackup for Lotus Notes
- Planning the installation of NetBackup for Lotus Notes
- Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
- NetBackup server and client requirements
- Lotus Notes server software requirements
- About the license for NetBackup for Lotus Notes
- Specifying the Lotus Notes home path (UNIX)
- (UNIX or Linux) About adding new Lotus Notes installations
- Configuring NetBackup for Lotus Notes
- About configuring NetBackup for Lotus Notes
- Configuring Lotus fast restores
- Defining properties for a Lotus Notes client
- About configuring a backup policy for a Lotus Notes database
- Adding a new NetBackup for Lotus Notes policy
- About policy attributes
- Adding schedules to a NetBackup for Lotus Notes policy
- Adding clients to a policy
- Adding backup selections to a Lotus Notes policy
- About directives in the backup selections list for Lotus Notes policies
- About backups of Windows network shared folders and UNIX NFS directories
- About excluding Lotus Notes databases from backups
- About backups of Lotus database links and directory links
- Configuring a backup policy for Lotus Notes database supporting files
- Performing a manual backup
- Performing backups and restore of Lotus Notes databases
- About performing backups and restores of Lotus Notes databases
- About performing user-directed backups of a Lotus Notes database
- About performing a Lotus Notes database restore
- Redirecting a Lotus Notes restore to a different client
- About restoring individual Lotus Notes documents or mail messages
- Recovering the Lotus Notes environment
- Domino clustering
- Domino partitioned servers
- Domino server multiple installations (UNIX or Linux)
- Troubleshooting NetBackup for Lotus Notes
About the features for NetBackup for Lotus Notes
Table: Features of NetBackup for Lotus Notes describes the features of the NetBackup for Lotus Notes agent.
Table: Features of NetBackup for Lotus Notes
Feature | Description |
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Online backup | 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 Lotus Notes backup. |
Restore operations | An administrator that uses the NetBackup client can browse Lotus Notes database and mailbox backups and select the ones to be restored. |
Transaction logging | NetBackup for Lotus Notes takes advantage of the ability of Domino to log transactions against one or more Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes databases and mailboxes. |
Tight NetBackup integration | Tight integration with NetBackup indicates the following:
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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. |
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. |
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 Lotus Notes clients on Windows. |
Checkpoint restart for backup jobs |
With checkpoint restart, NetBackup can retry 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. |
NetBackup for Lotus Notes agent does not support Encrypting File System (EFS) based backup and restore. For a workaround when your NetBackup environment has the EFS feature, you can refer to the following tech note on the Veritas Support website: