Port Lotus Domino from Linux to Windows

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Hi,

I want to migrate my Domino Server 7 from Linux to Domino Server 8 on Windows, but I found nowhere a HowTo.

Can anyone help?

Regards

Peter

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Subject: and the reverse ???

from Windows 2003 to Linux???

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Subject: I dont’t believe

This time I don’t think about that.

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Subject: I have done this with a small production server from Windows to Linux and expect it to work on both directions

most tricky detail for me was Linux file system rights - (there is documentation on the web for this - command is ‘chown’. Additionally even if the migration by itself is successful, some custom apps might run into problems (Usage of OS specific Lotusscript and/or capitalization of nsf - filenames)

In short:

  1. I would suggest, if you have never migrated a server from one hardware to the next within the same OS, but different directories for program and data, I would start with this one for testing purposes (learn how to work with notes.ini), and getting an idea of how to deal with the problem that the machines can’t have the same IP adress during migration, but have to have seperate ones inbetween.

  2. I would use the exact same versions of server (FixpPack?) on both ends

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Subject: Moving domino server to another platform.

Hi :)My opinion about this is that you can “probably” move a domino server to another supported platform doing something like this :

  1. copy the data directory to the “new” platform

  2. check for any os needed fixes or requirements for the domino server ( better to move to the same version)

  3. install it making the installer point at the data directory (this should make the domino instaler act as a upgrade install)

The basic old rule for move or “save” a server was to store at least five files : server.id, admin.id, cert.id ,notes.ini, names.nsf.

Domino ,since its name was only Notes ,acts like a guest on the os (ex. in windows there aren’t any DLL wasted inside the os paths ,so you can get the full domino path copy to another system, reinstall the same version and you will have again the server working!)

I have a Sametime server on my Iseries and i will move it to a windows platform soon :slight_smile: i am sure that it will works!

Hope this helps :slight_smile:

Ciao

Alberto Ernestini

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Subject: Steps to reinstall a Domino server or to move a Domino server from one machine to another

The migration that you describe is detailed in the following Technote:

Lotus Software Knowledge Base Document

Title: Steps to reinstall a Domino server or to move a Domino server from one machine to another

Doc #: 1087009

URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21087009