Moving a Lotus Domino server running 6.0.2CF1 for Linux Redhat 7.2 (and also on 9.0), to Lotus Domino server running 6.5.1 for Linux zSeries. Question. What options are available to move (copy) the Lotus Domino directory from the Domino server runing in Linux Redhat to the Domino server running in Linux zSeries? The SERVER name is not changing, just the IP address and the software envrionment. Can I use FTP (binary) to copy the Domino/Data directory from the midrange platform to the z/VM (zSeries) platform? Does the Lotus Domino directory (the userids, the databases, the permissions, the names.nsf file)have to be created from scratch?
Subject: Moving Domino server to new software level.
check some of my previous postings. I give a very short step process on how to
just this.
If you are not changing the org or anything else, you don’t need to recreate
anything. Just install the software on the new server.
To give a brief example I have a development server it is running 6.5 on Red
hat 7.3. I want to upgrade to 6.5.1 and I am not going to change the server
name or the applications on the server.
Shutdown the domino server on the box. rename the lotus and data
directories (I use /opt/lotus and /opt/local); to wit, these directory are
going to the suffix “2”).
Install the 6.5.1 software I use the /opt/lotus and /opt/local/
respectively. I pull the main databases (names.nsf, admin4.nsf, events4.nsf
from the production box).
start up the 6.5.1 server to make sure nothing is crashing. I shut down the
server after I was successful on the 6.5.1 startup.
go the 6.5 data directory and remove any full index
directory/subdirectories. I want 6.5.1 to rebuild these indexes. I cp (or mv
if there is not enough disk data – I personally use cp not mv) and preserve
the attributes from the 6.5 properties. I don’t copy the core templates, but I
do copy over my custom templates.
I start up 6.5.1 with the 6.5 databases copied. Do the
compact/fixup/updall/designer (not in that order) to make sure the database are
all healthy.
After I like the results I just delete the old directories – /opt/local2 and
/opt/lotus2.
If at any time I don’t like 6.5.1 I can revert back to 6.5 by renaming the
directories (yadda yadda). I had preserved by 6.5 install that I can revert
back without a problem.
It has worked ever since my beta days with domino/linux.
HTH – Cheers – email if you have specific q’s.
P.S.
You can not have a server contact to another server using the same server.id;
to wit, ServerName/Org can not connect to a second server whose name is
identical.
P.S.S
I don’t ftp when I am doing this between linux boxes. I use scp (part of
OpenSSH) because I can perserve the file attributes/ownerships.
P.S.S.S
I always test the upgrade process and verify all the database work with 6.5.1
before I do this on the mail production box – especiailly the mail server.
i>Testing makes perfect.]
Subject: RE: Moving Domino server to new software level.
Hi Joe. Thanks for your response. I am sorry, but I did not make myself clear. (My bad.) What I have is the following:- Midrange server (on a blade) running Domino 6.0.2CF1 for Linux Redhat at 7.2 (and a second production server at Redhat 9.0 - which will be moved at a later time).
New server being created in z/VM as a partition (or Virtual machine) running Domino 6.5.1 Linux for zSeries. This server will have the same server name (platform name) as the current server running on the midrange blade.
The two servers xxx(old) and xxxx(new) will NOT talk to each other.
My question is how to I move the contents of the Lotus Domino dirctory (all the *.nsf files) from the physical midrange box, to the z/VM partition?
These are different versions (and platforms) of Domino. Domino versions prior to 6.5 do not run on the Z/VM platform so I can’t ‘move or copy’ the Domion server at 6.0.2CF1 from the midrange server to the z/VM partion, and then upgrade to Lotus Domion 6.5. What I have to do is install Lotus Domion 6.5 on the z/VM partition and then figure out how to ‘move or copy’ the Domino dirctory contents from the midrange platform to the z/VM platform. What options are available to me? Can I FTP from LINUX on the midrange box to LINUX on the z/VM platform and expect Domino to be able to use the *.nsf files.
I hope this has helped to qualify the situation I find myself in.
Subject: RE: Moving Domino server to new software level.
and my post said it would be easier to do it via scp within openssh because you can preserve ownership and other file attributes. [It was in the P.S.S section of my post.]
I purposedly describe it from within the box itself because the process I describe is no different than moving it to a different server.
Everything is quite relative. Even Bill’s post is somewhat repetitive to my (verbose) steps.
Hi Bill. Thanks for your reply. I am puzzled by step 6, which is “reinstall software on new machine”, before starting the server. Why would I need to do that, if the Domino 6.5.1 software is already installed on the z/VM partition? Regards,