Setting Up Domino Online Backups

If you are using Domino online backup, we recommend you do the following to complete a full IFS backup:

• Domino Online Backup—daily

• Domino Transaction Logs—daily

• IFS plus Domino databases—weekly, with the Domino server ended

  Note: Transaction logs should be saved after the IFS plus Domino backup.

Saving your Domino databases by doing a Domino online backup provides the following benefits:

• The Domino Online Backup Archive Inquiry panel allows you to locate Domino databases to restore.

• If you use archived transaction logging, you can recover your Domino database to any point in time.

• You can back up Domino databases while the server is active and the files are in use.

Notes:

• Robot Save’s Domino online backup saves only Domino databases. Although there are many other non-database files in the Domino data directory, only the databases are saved.

• Because Robot Save Domino online backup saves all the Domino databases on the selected server, you cannot select individual databases to back up or omit from a save.

Robot Save is shipped with a default setting that saves five Domino databases at a time until all databases have been backed up. During a backup, a copy of each database is made, and the copy is saved and then deleted. You can modify the number of Domino databases saved based on the amount of storage available for the database copies and the time available for the backup.

After the Domino online backup completes, the System Restoration Report shows how to use the Restore Domino Database (RBSRSTDOMD) command to restore the databases to your system. You also should check the Save History Audit Report to see whether the Domino online backup and transaction log saves were successful. The Status and Completion Inquiry panel also lists status messages for the save.