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Configuration for Partitioned Domino Server

marcel_juhnke
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Hello,

 

is there any possibility with the SnapCreator Domino Plug-in to configure Snapshots for "Partitioned" Domino Servers, i.e. that have more that one Domino instance (with their own 'data' directories each)?

 

I did not find any information in the Domino Plugin documentation & TR about this, only to configure a single instance.

 

So what we have is one Server, which has two Domino instances, so we would need set something like the following:

 

LOTUS=D:\Lotus\Domino

DOMINO_DATA_PATH01=E:\Lotus\CLIDOM01

DOMINO_INI_PATH01=E:\Lotus\CLIDOM01\notes.ini

 

DOMINO_DATA_PATH02=E:\Lotus\CLIDOM02

DOMINO_INI_PATH02=E:\Lotus\CLIDOM02\notes.ini

 

Is that possible somehow in the current version of SnapCreator?

 

Thanks

Marcel

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rashidn
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Hi Marcel,

 

We do not support multiple data (DOMINO_DATA_PATH) or ini (DOMINO_INI_PATH) path into single config.

 

Thanks

Rashid

marcel_juhnke
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Hi, thanks for the reply.

 

What is your recommended way to have partitioned Domino Servers backed up by SnapCreator?

 

Can I put the second Domino instance in backup mode with an additional quiesce command? What would be the best way to do this?

 

Thanks

Marcel

marcel_juhnke
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In case anyone being in the need to do the same in the future:

 

Using nested configurations is working good, calling configs for the other Domino Instances on the same server with the PRE_APP_QUIESCE_CMD on the SnapCreator Server.

 

However, this will lead to each Instance having its own snapshot, despite being on the same volume, because pure quiesce/unquiesce operations are not supported and can cause Domino to stop responding.

 

http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=518438

 

Is this bug something that will be fixed in future releases to have Domino Quiesce/Unquiesce working correctly when called independently or is this an inherent limitation of Domino itself?

spinks
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Marcel,

 

While the crashing issue is fixed, overall this is a limitation of Domino.

Domino holds all of the information in a session.

Breaking operations into separate actions creates two different sessions.

Quiesce would work, but there would be no relationship to the separate unquiesce action as this would be a second session.

 

The result is that there would be no changeinfo details stored - Domino would not know about the different sessions.

After a restore operation a consistency check would occur.

 

Hope this helps,

 

John

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