Good Day,
I am just wondering if we enable Contact Synchronization in a policy, if this would eliminate the need to backup the users local names.nsf?
We regularly are swapping out our users computers with faster one’s and need to backup the users Notes/data info quite often. If we can eliminate a step, that would be great.
Thanks
Subject: Probably not
The local names.nsf contains information that is not part of synchronizing contacts. It also holds one or more of the following: location documents, connection documents, cross certificates, public keys of other Notes users and various account documents, e.g. LDAP directories.
Subject: not a names.nsf backup
While Contacts Synchronization does make a copy of the contact (and group) records into your Mail file, it is not an official backup of names.nsf. There are documents in names.nsf which are not copied, such as Location, Connection, Account records, etc.
Subject: Thank you for all the reponses…
Subject: How do you backup your users pertinent file in the data folder with multi-user installs?
Hello,
We are going to be changing our install type from single user to multi-user installs. Since we swap out the users computers quite often (yearly), I am wondering how you go about backing up the users information, i.e. - names.nsf, journal.nsf, cache6/8.nsk, etc.
With the single user install, it was pretty simple as the data folder was in one location, now the data folder will be in multiple locations.
Any ideas would be VERY helpful.
On a sidenote, we can’t/don’t want to have the users roaming either.
I’m wondering if there can be some sort of agent built that would copy items from the users data file to thier User drive on the network.
Thanks for any input you can give me.