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.
i don’t know if u dont want to use Notes-Roaming or Windows-Roaming.Both of my Solutions need one of these.
The most easy thing is to have Users use Notes-Roaming.
Since 8.5.1< Notes-User Roaming also saves users-Workspace, contacts,feeds and bookmarks. All they need is to log on on Notes and they have all their data.
If u dont want to use Notes Roaming u can do it if Users have Roaming Profiles in Windows, and their User-Profile is on their home-Folder on the Server.
This is not supported by IBM but it works:
move Users Data-Folder on their Home-Folder on the network.
move notes.ini into this Data-Folder
change the Data-Path in the notes.ini to its new location
Do these steps via some Windows-Logon Script
Create a Notes-Icon where behind the notes.exe u put the new Path to the Users- notes.ini
looks like this: “C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe” “= \server\owner\Notesdata\notes.ini”
This way you Users Datafolder will get backup’d with the daily Server backup, but take care using that way u should not use local replication since that can fill the diskspace on the server really fast.
like i said both ways work well but really most easy thing these days is to user the new notes roaming.
If you have your My Documents location already synced to the network, like a home folder or something, you could have the multi-user setup use My Documents\Lotus\Data as the path for the data. So the Directory= in the notes.ini would point to the My Documents location. Then your my docs would sync with the network.
I do know that the notes.ini can’t use system variables like %username%. I do something similar for our citrix users, a login batch file builds the notes.ini on first login, since the batch file builds the ini it can grab the %username% value and construct the Directory= path for each user.