We have a Notes Contact Application which is build based on a domino directory resided on server A. It is configred in a directory assistance on Server B as a additonal addressbook.
I have esatblished a program document in the DOMINO administration to recreate all notes application every sunday (compact -replica -restart) and restart the server after that process.
This works good but has a special negative side effect: The contacts in the Contact Application are not available after that process on server B. If I open the configuration document in the directory assistance database on server B and save it, the contacts from contact application are suddenly available. So it seems that Server A is loosing the connection to Contact Application during recreate/restart and doesnt establish it again after that.
Is IBM developing new features which we should not use? Or is there a restriction to use this compact-options only for system databases?
At first I tried the new dbmt tool to do the same thing (program document dbmt -compactThreads 8 -updallThreads 8 -range 2:00AM 10:00AM -compactNdays 5 -force 1). But until now I had no success with this call.
And anyway, where is the context between recreate a addressbook and lose the connection to this addressbook, which is registered in a directory assistance on an other server? …And additional recreate this connection, only by open the document in the directory assistance database and save the unchanged document again.
#2 - Watch your servers disk fragmentation. By running compact over and over again you’ll just increase the disk fragmentation and your server will run slower than ever before.