Domino runs compact process at 12 midday - not scheduled anywhere

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Our Domino server is compacting our mail databases every Tuesday at 12 midday, but I can’t find where this is scheduled (as I want to turn this off). Any ideas?

I have checked:

The notes.ini - there is no ServerTasksAt running compact

Program docs in the NAB - there are two compact processes scheduled - one at 11pm every night (mail database only) and one at 1230am on sun,tues,thurs (all databases). I have tried changing the times for both of these.

Is there anywhere else this could be scheduled?

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Subject: Domino runs compact process at 12 midday - not scheduled anywhere

Try checking out server based archiving policies. I have seen a note somewhere about an issue with Archiving policies.

Something like Server based archiving was enabled with Archiving Options:

Enabled - Prohibit private archiving criteria.

This meant the schedule tab was greyed out, but by default it seems Tuesday, midday is selected and this is still being applied.

Archiving is done by COMPACT -a (or -A) option.

Answer was to disable prohibit private archiving, then alter the schedule to unselect Tuesday noon, then re-enable the prohibit private archiving.

Let me know if this is the case or not.

Paul Benwell

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Subject: RE: Domino runs compact process at 12 midday - not scheduled anywhere

There doesn’t seem to be anywhere in the policy’s where you can set when the archiving actually takes place?

Our policy is set to allow private archiving.

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Subject: RE: Domino runs compact process at 12 midday - not scheduled anywhere

Hi Adam, have you gotten anywhere with this? I just noticed one of our servers running the task at 10AM today…not scheduled either.

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Based on previous post…if you ENABLE “Archiving will be performed on user’s local workstation” the SCHEDULE TAB becomes available. I then noticed Frequency was set to weekly Monday at 10AM on ours. I DISABLED the schedule “Enable Client based scheduling archiving”, and then went back and reset “Archiving will be performed…” to server.

We’ll see how this goes.

Thanks, Ed

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Subject: RE: Domino runs compact process at 12 midday - not scheduled anywhere

Thanks Paul (and Edward for the clarification).

I checked our policy documents, and indeed they were scheduled for 12 on Tuesday!

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Subject: Archiving bug will down your server (with many users)

Note: Regardless of what IBM says, there is no SERVER fix for this, although the client version may come into play (which it seems they do). We’re running 6.0.3 servers and had this problem. Evidently the fix is that you must upgrade to at least 6.0.2 client versions.

See this technote… it’s a very bad thing, since it has brought down our servers multiple times until this was discovered (based on default Tuesday settings). Starting hundreds of compacts simultaneously is never a good thing.

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21105286

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Subject: RE: Archiving bug will down your server (with many users)

This posting could be the one I have been search for the last 12 months. Bravo for finding the Technote Jerry. I’ve applied the fix within and am on tenter hooks until next Tuesday.

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Subject: RE: Archiving bug will down your server (with many users)

The next Tuesday came and no luck.Even though I’ve employed the work around and am using the latest release (6.5.1), the compact tasks are still started. Any help will be much appreciated.

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Subject: RE: Archiving bug will down your server (with many users)

Did you ever get a fix? I have been chasing the same problem for months now…