Recovering the Lotus Notes environment

If you need to recreate the Lotus Notes environment, restore both Lotus Notes databases and regular files from backup.

To recover the Lotus Notes environment

  1. Reinstall the Domino server software.

  2. Restore the Domino configuration files (*.id) from the file system backup image.

    Restore these files to the path of the current Domino server installation.

  3. Configure the Domino server.

    The *.id files that were restored in the previous step can be used to configure the Domino server for the first time.

  4. If the previous Lotus Notes environment had transaction logging enabled:

    • Enable transaction logging on the new Domino server, by using the Domino Administrator application.

    • Restart the Domino server to create new transaction logs.

  5. Shut down the Domino server.

  6. Make the following change in the notes.ini file.

    TRANSLOG_Status=0

  7. Add the following line to the notes.ini file:

    TRANSLOG_mediaonly=1

  8. Move or delete any files that may exist in the translog_path directory.

    For example, nlogctrl.lfh or any transaction log extents.

  9. Copy the transaction log extents from the previous Domino server installation into the current transaction log directory.

    Or, you can restore the transaction log extents by using the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface. The transaction log extents should have a timestamp later than the timestamp of the backup image from which the databases are restored.

  10. Make the following changes to the notes.ini file:

    TRANSLOG_Status=1
TRANSLOG_MediaOnly=1
TRANSLOG_Style=1

  11. Start the Domino server to create the new control file of the restored transaction log extents.

  12. Shut down domino server.

  13. Use the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface to restore the Lotus Notes databases or mailboxes from the Lotus Notes backup image, as follows:

    • If transaction logging is enabled, select the point-in-time to which you want to recover the databases.

    • If point-in-time is not selected, the database rolls forward to the most recent available version.

  14. After the recovery of the Lotus Notes databases is complete, make the following change to the notes.ini file.

    TRANSLOG_MediaOnly=0

    (Or, remove the setting from notes.ini.)

  15. Start the Domino server.

    If backup images of non-Lotus Notes databases are not available, you can configure the newly installed Domino server by creating new *.id files.