Preparing to upgrade Domino archiving

This section describes the preparation you must do before you upgrade Domino archiving.

To prepare for upgrading Domino mailbox archiving

  1. On all Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway servers and on all Domino Mail Servers on which you have updated Forms85.nsf, Forms8.nsf, Forms7.nsf, and Forms6.nsf to include the Enterprise Vault customizations, do the following:

    • Stop the HTTP task.

    • If the forms databases have replication enabled, the changes that EVIinstall makes are replicated to all Domino mail servers. To prevent the replication to other mail servers, disable the replication of the Forms6.nsf, Forms7.nsf, Forms8.nsf, and Forms85.nsf databases before you run EVInstall.nsf.

    • Replace the Forms85.nsf, Forms8.nsf, Forms7.nsf, and Forms6.nsf files with the original Domino versions that you backed up before you installed the previous version of Enterprise Vault.

    • Update the ACL on these .nsf files to give the ID used to run EVInstall manager access to these originals.

    Note:

    Since you are replacing the Forms85.nsf, Forms8.nsf, Forms7.nsf, and Forms6.nsf files with the original Domino versions, any additional (non-Enterprise Vault) customizations to these files will be lost. If you have made any additional customizations to Forms85.nsf, Forms8.nsf, Forms7.nsf, or Forms6.nsf, reapply these changes to the files after you have upgraded to Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP4.

  2. On the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway server, delete the following files, if they exist, from the ev subfolder of the Domino Data folder (for example, C:\Lotus\Domino\Data\ev):

    • EV_*.nsf

    • EVA_*.nsf

    • blank*.nsf