Snap Creator 4.1 Videos - Domino Restore Scenarios

spinks — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:38:20 GMT

*Note: Per a request from the Communities Moderator I have removed the embedded videos and provided links instead. Sorry for any inconvenience*

The Snap Creator plugin for IBM Domino has fairly advanced restore functions for Domino.

I'm adding this entry to build on the information in the Creating a Complex Configuration (Domino as an example) post

The videos are based after the information in TR-4009: NetApp Snap Creator Framework with IBM Domino Plug-In Deployment and Configuration Guide: http://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4009.pdf

There are three high level restore scenarios for the Domino plugin:

Domino Volume Restore
Domino Single File Restore (NFS)
Domino Single File Restore (SAN)

Each type of restore is also capable of performing the following recovery options on Domino:

Point in time Restore (up to the point in time of the Snapshot copy)
Up to the Minute Restore* (Restore to the point in time of the Snapshot copy and play transaction logs forward to the most recent entry)
Selectable Up to the Minute Restore* (Restore to the point in time of the Snapshot copy and play transaction logs forward to a specific point in time [example - April 10 at 10:00:00])

*Domino transaction logs must be enabled to perform this type of recovery.

You can also optionally disable replication when performing a restore, assigning a new DBIID to the restore Domino database(s).

Note: When referring to single file restore, this means that Snap Creator can restore a single file on the file system.

With Domino a single file can be a database (a user's mailbox for example), template, or system mailbox (.box file).

The videos are available on SnapCreatorTV.

Domino Volume Restore [~4 minutes]:

Domino volume restore does require you to stop the Domino server. You do not want to attempt a restore against a running database.

http://youtu.be/Z4rk-XNxmNI

Domino Single File Restore in NFS Environments [~5 minutes]:

Single File Restore in NFS environments can be performed entirely through the Snap Creator GUI or CLI.

Since NFS is file based we are able to select a database directly from the file system and easily restore it.

http://youtu.be/4kg_zwQiKmg

Domino Single File Restore in SAN environments [~8 minutes]:

Since Snap Creator uses the single file snap restore API, if you attempt to perform a single file restore through the GUI or CLI in a SAN environment all you can see is the underlying LUN.

For Domino Restore in SAN environments you must mount a Snapshot copy, copy the data into a restore path, then run Snap Creator via the CLI.

http://youtu.be/ab02ahQrM9A

For other videos about Snap Creator, check out SnapCreatorTV.

Re: Snap Creator 4.1 Videos - Domino Restore Scenarios

sivar — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:29:09 GMT

I will never forget how you helped me rolling out a fresh install, backup and restore all under 45 minutes at a customer site.

This is so cool!

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