Hi Guys,I’m just enabling DAOS on our mail files which is helping with backups a lot.
How will i now backup a mail file when someone leaves the company, i used to just copy the file off the file system and burn to cd, do i have to now replicate it to my machine to make sure i have all the attachments?
Thanks
Patrick
Subject: backing up DAOS enabled database for archive purposes
I would think you might do this
load compact -c -daos off mailfile.nsf
this will create a self contained, old style version of the NSF and then add it to your collection of old mail files.
it can be done using DAOS files directly, but that would better be left to Backup and Restore vendors (I think)
Subject: Backup
makes sense :))
i assume i would need to run load compact -c mailfile.nsf after to re compact it?
Subject: No need to re-compact
The “compact -c -daos off” operation will re-integrate attachments, in addition to the normal compact behavior. A copy-style compact (-c) traverses all aspects of an original NSF, and copies them into a new NSF, and then deletes the original one and does a rename as a final step. If you turn DAOS off as part of that operation, the new NSF will store the attachments inline as they are read and copied over from the existing NSF…which had them stored in DAOS.
There should be no need to run compact -c on the resulting NSF again…unless the NSF sees some subsequent traffic, in which case normal guidelines apply.
If you want to extract the attachments into DAOS again, then ‘compact -c -daos on’ will do it.