I am running Lotus Domino 6.0 on Windows 2000 server , Now I want to change my platform . I installed RedHat Linux 9.0 on my new machine and Lotus Domino 6.0 for Linux as well.Now I want to restore my existing Lotus Domino Configuration (names.nsf, admin4.nsf etc) files from Win2k machine to Linux machine to run my exisiting environment as it is. How can I do this ?
Thanks
Subject: RE: Platform Tranformation from Win2k to Linux
You should be able to just copy the files over; that should work. The Notes file formats are the same on all platforms.
Subject: RE: Platform Tranformation from Win2k to Linux
Hi,
I’m not shure if this will work. A problem may cause the Unix user rights and !perhaps! different pathes (Never tried that).
I would setup the new linux server, replicating all neccessary files and then check the new configuration with the decommissioning tool.
Just my 2 Cents.
Manfred
Subject: you can ftp them in
since both your w2k and linux boxes are x86 then the files can be transfered over using either samba or ftp. Once you’ve installed domino on linux, simply ftp the names.nsf the notes.ini and all the mail and app databases into the appropriate locations. the notes.ini I believe also lives in the data directory. you may need to run a conversion utility on the notes.in to strip out linefeeds. You’ll want to ftp under the userid/account that the domino server will run under.
In some instances, if I’ve run into permissio nissues I just make everything read/write/execute by doing chmod 777 *. Yes I know it’s sloppy but it works! 