Date - 01/2010
Affected Product & Version - ALL
Affected Module & Version - Lotus Notes APM 4.0
OS Version - All Supported Version
Application Information - All Support Version
Description:
Lotus Notes APM 4.0 does not allow a relocate / rename operation to overwrite an existing file, i.e. to overwrite an existing Lotus Domino Database. If a no logged database is restored with relocate / rename from a Full Backup, the database will be restored to the selected location. When restoring from the Incremental Backup, because the database is no logged, what will be restored is the full contents of the database, and because the restore from the Full Backup already restored the database, and the database already exists in the relocate / rename destination, the restore will fail, since Lotus Notes APM 4.0 does not allow a relocate / rename operation to overwrite an existing file.
Symptoms:
An incremental restore using relocate/rename fails with the following error in the NetVault Backup binary log; File with that name already exists. Please give a different name.
When restoring a no logged database with relocate / rename option, use the latest backup set available, Full or Incremental Backup, because for no logged databases full contents of the database are backed up in both Full and Incremental backups. For no logged databases, it is not necessary to apply the sequence of Full then Incremental Backups. Just use the latest Incremental Backup for restore with relocate / rename option.
If you restore with relocate / rename from a Full Backup and then restore with relocate / rename from an Incremental Backup, and a deadlock condition happen, because Lotus Notes APM 4.0 fails restore/rename an incremental backup with NetVault: Backup binary logs error: File with that name already exists. Please give a different name, then you might need to remove the file restored from the Full Backup and submit a restore with relocate / rename from the latest Incremental Backup of the sequence.
For example, a Lotus Domino Server Database 'new_db1' is restored from a Full Backup with relocate / rename option, renamed to 'new_db1_renamed'. The restore succeeds. Next, the same Lotus Domino Server Database 'new_db1' is restored from the Incremental Backup with relocate / rename option, renamed to 'new_db1_renamed'. Restore Fails with error: File with that name already exists. This means that 'new_db1' database is not logged, and that the Incremental Backup included the full contents of the database. Restoring the Incremental Backup over the Full Backup will fail because Lotus Notes APM 4.0 does not allow restore with relocate / rename option to overwrite an existing database. Please remove (or move) the restored 'new_db1_renamed', then select the last Incremental Backup of the sequence to restore 'new_db1' with relocate / rename option, renamed to 'new_db1_renamed'.
