Finalizing our upgrade to 8.5.1 and last is to upgrade ODS to R85 (51:0) by running “lo compact -c” on the server. This seems to have upgraded everyone’s mail databases and most of the databases in the data directory. However, there are some that are always in use, such as names.nsf, or Domino Domain Monitor (7), etc. How does one perform a copy style copmact to upgrade the ODS on these databases if they are always in use?
Thanks!
Subject: You can try this…
On the server console, issue a “drop all” and a “dbcache flush” (which may take a minute to return). Then you may be able to compact the DB if nothing else has grabbed a handle on it.
If it’s frequently accessed then you’ll need to bring the server offline and run a compact from the command prompt when Domino isn’t running (e.g. “ncompact.exe” on Windows servers).
Subject: Run compact from command prompt
Bring the Domino server down and from a command prompt in the Domino program directory run the following command
ncompact -c names.nsf
You may want to run that command on admin4.nsf and events4.nsf
Subject: Thanks will do!
Thanks for your fast response!
Subject: Run it with Domino down