We are looking at BCV’s for DR purposes. To prevent corruption we are looking for a way to suspend all writes, do the BCV and then resume normal domino services. Aside from bringing down the server. Is there any way of suspending writes to disk for a period of time ?
Drop all will drop all client sessions, but i’m more concerned about server activities
Any input on this would be appreciated
Thanks
Subject: I have my doubts
I know that there is no way to instruct Domino to suspend writes, thus it would have to be done at the operating system level. In that case, the write would have to actually block as opposed to failing. So you couldn’t, for example, make the disk read-only for a minute.
Also, be wary of a solution which would delay flushing disk-write caches because Domino occasionally forces them to be flushed in order to ensure that the on-disk copy is in a known state.
Subject: RE: I have my doubts
thanks, I seem to really be coming up empty on this one… I’m wondering if drop all followed by DBcache would give us at least a minute of decreased IO’s