About the features for NetBackup for Domino
NetBackup for Domino provides online backups and restores of Notes databases and individual mailboxes when Domino server has been installed. This capability is provided as an add-on or extension to the NetBackup client software.
Table: Features of NetBackup for Domino
Feature | Description |
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Tight NetBackup integration | Tight integration with NetBackup indicates the following:
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Central administration | Administrators can define Notes policies, back up and restore Notes databases, and back up and restore archive-style transaction log extents from a central location. |
Media management | Notes database backups are saved directly to a wide variety of storage devices that the NetBackup master server supports. |
Online backups | Notes databases, mailboxes, and transaction logs can be backed up without taking down the Domino server. This feature ensures the availability of Notes services and data during the backup. |
Automated backups | Administrators can set up schedules for automatic, unattended backups for local or remote clients across the network. These backups can be full or incremental and are managed entirely by the NetBackup server from a central location. The administrator also can manually back up clients. |
Restore operations | An administrator that uses the NetBackup client can browse Notes database and mailbox backups and select the ones to restore. |
Redirected restores of databases |
Backups can be restored a different path. |
Transaction logging | NetBackup for Domino takes advantage of the ability of Domino to log transactions against one or more databases and mailboxes. Transaction logging may be circular style, linear style, or archive style. |
Point in time recovery | Transaction logging enables NetBackup for Domino to perform a point-in-time recovery of a logged databases and mailboxes. |
Compression of backups | Compression increases backup performance over the network and reduces the size of the backup image that is stored on the disk or tape. This feature is only supported for |
Checkpoint restart for backup jobs |
With checkpoint restart, NetBackup retries a failed backup from the last checkpoint rather than restart the entire job. With this feature, the NetBackup administrator can also pause a job and resume it later. |
Backups of Domino Partitioned Server | Administrators can back up databases from a partitioned Domino server. |
(UNIX or Linux) Backups of multiple Domino installations | Administrators can back up databases within multiple Domino installations. |