Just curious if anyone has a good method for creating new copies (file → database → new copy) of 713 databases on a server? I have 713 databases and I need to batch make new replica IDs for all the databases. Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks,
Sean
Subject: New Copy help
Hi,
From Bruce Elgort
http://www.bruceelgort.com/blogs/be.nsf/plinks/BELT-6ZHNSX
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Recently I needed to make “copies” of some Lotus Notes databases and didn’t want to do it from my Notes client. This would have take hours considering the database was 5gb. I knew that there had to be a way to do this and thanks to the assistance of my friend Thomas Gumz, I was able to issue a command line from the Domino server console and presto, the database was instantly copied. Yes, it’s not documented nor supported, but has been around for a long time, at least since V4 according to Thomas.
So let’s look at what you need to do to enable this feature:
The server console commands are turned off by default, you need to first enable them:
Set this server notes.ini variable, like so:
set config CLUSTER_ADMIN_ON=1 (even if the server is not a in cluster, doesn’t matter).
No need to restart the server, it becomes active immediately.
This enables this new command:
CL COPY sourcedb targetdb
Examples for the CL COPY command:
CL copy serverA!!db1.nsf serverB!!db2.nsf
This would create a regular non-replica copy of db1.nsf on serverA as db2.nsf on ServerB
CL copy serverA!!db1.nsf serverB!!db2.nsf REPLICA
This would create a replica copy of db1.nsf on serverA as db2.nsf on ServerB
CL copy serverA!!db1.nsf serverB!!db2.nsf TEMPLATE
This would create a template copy (only design, no data) of db1.nsf on serverA as db2.nsf on ServerB
CL copy db1.nsf db2.nsf
This would create a regular non-replica copy of db1.nsf as db2.nsf on the same local server
JYR