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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Lotus Notes Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring NetBackup for Lotus Notes
  4. About configuring a backup policy for a Lotus Notes database
  5. Adding backup selections to a Lotus Notes policy
  6. Adding Lotus databases to the backup selections list
Veritas NetBackup™ for Lotus Notes Administrator's Guide

Adding Lotus databases to the backup selections list

The following procedure describes how to add databases to the backup selections list.

To add databases to the backup selections list

  1. In the Policy dialog box, click the Backup Selections tab.

    To open the Policy dialog box, double-click the policy name in the Policies list in the NetBackup Administration Console.

  2. Click New.
  3. Indicate the database or directory to back up.

    From the Windows interface:

    • Click the Remote Folder button and select the database or directory.

      Or type the full path and name of the database or directory.

      You can indicate an NFS pathname or a UNC pathname in the Backup Selections list. For example:

      /export/home/lotus/data (NFS pathname)

      \\hostname\share\lotus\data (UNC pathname)

      For linked databases and directories, include the pathname to the source databases or directory.

    • Continue to add any other databases and directories to the list.

    From the Java interface:

    • In the Pathname or directive box, type the full path name of a database or directory.

      You can indicate an NFS pathname or a UNC pathname in the Backup Selections list. For example,

      /export/home/lotus/data (NFS pathname)

      \\hostname\share\lotus\data (UNC pathname)

      For linked databases and directories, include the pathname to the source databases or directory.

    • Click Add.

    • Continue to add any other databases and directories to the list.

    • When you have added all the databases or directories, in the Add Backup Selection dialog box, click OK.

  4. In the Policy dialog box, click OK.

More Information

Adding backup selections to a Lotus Notes policy

About directives in the backup selections list for Lotus Notes policies

About excluding Lotus Notes databases from backups

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