Disaster recovery of a Lotus Domino server

Before restoring your Lotus Domino server, you must first completely recover the Windows computer and then recover or re-install Lotus Domino to the same location as before the disaster occurred. All of the Lotus Domino system data must be recovered, including log.nsf, names.nsf, template files, notes.ini, mail.box, and ID files.

Note:

If transaction logging is enabled on the Lotus Domino server, go to the section that contains the steps for disaster recovery for the style of logging selected on the server.

System recovery can be performed in the following ways:

Manually

See Manual disaster recovery of Windows computers.
By using Backup Exec's Intelligent Disaster Recovery Options

See Getting started with IDR.

Note:

Disaster recovery of a Lotus Domino server in a Microsoft Cluster Server cluster uses the same steps as recovering a Domino server in a non-clustered environment.

After rebuilding the server, you can restore the databases from your most recent backup.

To recover a Lotus Domino server and databases

Restore or re-install the Lotus Domino server program directory to the same location as before the disaster occurred.
Restore the notes.ini, cert.id, and server.id files from the last full backup of the Lotus Domino server program directory.
Use the Lotus Domino Agent to restore the databases to the Domino data directory.
Start the Lotus Domino Server.