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NetVault Plug-in for Domino 12.4 - User Guide

Target audience

This guide is intended for users who are responsible for the backup and recovery of the Domino Server. Familiarity with Domino administration and the operating system (OS) under which the Domino Server is running is assumed. Advanced knowledge of Domino is useful for defining an efficient backup-and-recovery strategy.

Recommended additional reading

The following documentation is also available:

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NetVault Backup documentation:
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Quest NetVault Backup Installation Guide: This guide provides details on installing the NetVault Backup Server and Client software.
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Quest NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide: This guide explains how to use NetVault Backup and describes the functionality common to all plug-ins.
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Quest NetVault Backup CLI Reference Guide: This guide provides a description of the command-line utilities.
You can download these guides from https://support.quest.com/technical-documents.
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Domino documentation, which is available from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/documentation/domino or https://help.hcltechsw.com/domino/domino_welcome.html.

Installing and removing the plug-in

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Prerequisites
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Installing or upgrading the plug-in
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Removing the plug-in

Prerequisites

Before installing the Plug‑in for Domino, verify that the following software is installed and properly configured on the machine that is to serve as the Domino Server:

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NetVault Backup Server and Client software: At a minimum, the NetVault Backup Client must be installed on the machine configured as the Domino Server.
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Set up Transactional Logging: Ensure that Transactional Logging is enabled on the Domino Server. For details, see Setting up Transactional logging on the Domino Server.
 
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IMPORTANT: Without Transactional Logging, you cannot perform Incremental Backups and Restores.
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Double-check symbolic links on Linux and UNIX: If you use Domino on Linux or UNIX, the plug-in might not let you browse the Domino Server because some symbolic links are not created during installation. Other Domino client applications, such as compact, might also fail to run correctly. For example, if you run the compact command for a database, compact -c /path/notesdata/filename.nsf, you might encounter an error such as: “Error while loading shared libraries: <nameOfLibrary>: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.”
To determine whether any of the symbolic links are missing, run the following commands. The *.so extension applies to Linux and Solaris SPARC. Replace this extension with the applicable one for your OS; for example, use the *.a extension for IBM AIX.
ls -al /usr/lib/libnotes.so
ls -al /usr/lib/libndgts.so
ls -al /usr/lib/libxmlproc.so
If you are using a 64-bit version of Domino Server 9 or later, run the following additional command:
ls -al /usr/lib/libgsk8iccs_64.so
If any of the links are missing, run the following commands to create them:
ln -s <directoryWhereDominoServerIsInstalled>/libnotes.so /usr/lib/libnotes.so
ln -s <directoryWhereDominoServerIsInstalled>/libndgts.so /usr/lib/libndgts.so
ln -s <directoryWhereDominoServerIsInstalled>/libxmlproc.so
/usr/lib/libxmlproc.so
ln -s <directoryWhereDominoServerIsInstalled>/libgsk8iccs_64.so
/usr/lib/libgsk8iccs_64.so
On a Sun Solaris SPARC system that uses the default installation location of the Domino Server, these commands might look similar to the following examples. Depending on the version of Domino Server that you are using, the path might use HCL instead of IBM or Domino instead of Lotus/Notes.
ln -s /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/sunspa/libnotes.so /usr/lib/libnotes.so
ln -s /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/sunspa/libndgts.so /usr/lib/libndgts.so
ln -s /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/latest/sunspa/libxmlproc.so /usr/lib/libxmlproc.so
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