HCL Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition Forum - System restore with DAOS installed

Jul 2, 2015, 5:59 PM

191 Posts

Don't foresee any issues there

If I understand your scenario correctly, you are doing a point-in-time restore of the entire Domino server, inclusive of its NLOs. That means the references from the NSFs will all exist in the NLO repository (or more correctly, whatever existed before will continue to exist after). The DAOS configuration files (daoscat.nsf and daos.cfg) will also be correct since all files are from the same point in time.

Just to be clear, though, you are backing up the NLOs after the NSFs, right? You don't want to overlap them or do the NLOs first, because changes to the NSFs after the NLO backup is hardened would not be in your restore data. See here for more details and overall discussion of DAOS backup and restore:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21358548

~Bella Nimkrokony

Jul 3, 2015, 4:56 AM

50 Posts

System restore with DAOS installed

Chad,

Thank you for the link. When I go searching for information, I suppose I don't input the search criteria quite correctly and I wind up with the library of congress for the search results. In answer to your question, yes... The .NLO files which exist on the drive dedicated to DAOS get backed up second. Both hard drives arrived today so tomorrow will be launch day for me. I figure it is better to do a dry run at a crash recovery to verify it works and then know I can just reflect back and know it will work after the inevitable happens. Appreciate the help.

~Dexter Deswechekynds

Jul 3, 2015, 4:24 PM

191 Posts

Excellent approach

It's become rare to actually perform DR scenarios instead of leaving them in the realm of theory. If you don't mind, please reply to this thread with your experiences.

~Bella Nimkrokony

Jul 5, 2015, 4:54 PM

50 Posts

System Restore

Hey Chad,

Wasn't able to make the DR work, there was something wrong with the backup program recognizing the hard drives so have ordered a couple additional drives to try again.

~Dexter Deswechekynds

Jul 6, 2015, 5:17 PM

191 Posts

Assuming no product issue?

Jon,

Thanks for the update. It sounds like you weren't able to make it past a hardware/driver issue to know if the Domino backup was good, but I want to confirm that to be the case.

~Bella Nimkrokony

Jul 7, 2015, 6:17 AM

50 Posts

Hardware driver

Chad,

it wasn't anything with Domino, I wasn't able to get that far. Apparently I'm in need of a driver to install with the backup software so it knows how to "read" a 3tb drive. It's a long story why I'm using a 3tb drive for a boot drive but in short.. I bought it as a 2tb, the label said 2tb, the part number of the drive indicated it was a 2tb so, i never checked when i installed the 2008r2 OS. Now I have to have a 3tb drive in order to do a restore as it backs up not only what is written to the drive but the actual physical clusters of the drive which in this case are about 2.6tb... larger than what a 2tb drive holds so... waiting on their tech support but i am actively pursuing this and it will happen sometime soon.