About Lotus Notes backup operations
NetBackup provides the following methods to perform backups:
For more information on these backup methods and other administrator-directed activities, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
With automatic backups, the NetBackup administrator can schedule backups to occur automatically and unattended, under the control of the NetBackup master server.
The manual backup lets the administrator initiate a full backup or incremental backup that is set up in the policy manager. The manual backup option can be useful for the following situations:
To test a configuration
When workstations miss their regular backups
Before installing new software (to preserve the old configuration)
To preserve records before a special event such as when companies split or merge
In some cases, it may be useful to create a policy and schedule that you use only for manual backups. Create a manual backup policy by defining a single schedule that does not have a defined backup window (and therefore never executes automatically).
User-directed backups require a User Backup schedule type to be defined in the Lotus-Notes policy. User-directed backups of Lotus Notes databases are similar to backups of normal files.
A user backup of Lotus Notes databases and transaction log extents is identical to a full backup with one exception. Transaction log extents are not marked as ready to be recycled after they are successfully backed up. Because transaction log extents are not recycled, a user backup is similar to a snapshot of the databases at a given point in time. The content of ongoing full and incremental backups is not affected. A user backup is not automatically scheduled and must be initiated on the target client machine.
More Information
About supported Lotus Notes database configurations
About Lotus database transaction logging styles
About performing backups and restores of Lotus Notes databases
About directives in the backup selections list for Lotus Notes policies
About backups of Windows network shared folders and UNIX NFS directories