Relocating DATA Directory

EDITED: I have not been able to find this online anywhere, certainly not from IBM’s website, so if this has already been discussed I apologize. I needed to relocate my DATA directory to another drive (space reasons) and was having issues because prior to 8.x you could just edit the NOTES.INI file and be done with it. My research suggested that I reinstall Domino (this was IBM’s suggestion). This seemed ridiculous to me so I figured this out:

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Quit Domino. Relocate the entire DATA folder to its new location. Edit the following:

NOTES.INI

Directory=(NEW DIRECTORY)

KeyFileName=(NEW DIRECTORY\sstapps.id)

REGISTRY

HKLM\Software\Lotus\Domino\DataPath=(NEW DIRECTORY)

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I have done this successfully with 3 servers.

Subject: FOLLOW-UP

Here’s a question for those who ARE in the know. There’s a key in the registry marked “Partitions”. I did not install Domino with Partitions so I’ve been deleting this key, but I wonder if that was the right thing to do. There’s a subfolder marked “1” that this Partitions key once pointed to. I left the settings unchanged and my server came up so the assumption is that this key is literally only used if I create a second partition… Does anyone know about this?

Subject: Question…

As long as you have the disk in another root folder (Different than your current one, and this is obvious) you could create a Directory Link and then just make Domino read databases from there.

I am pretty sure you didnt need the reinstall. Try to make it now. Go to the files view in the administrador, right click in Programa Files\Lotus\etc etc etc, Create - Link.

And choose a Directory link.

Hope it helps.

Subject: Corrected First Entry

Subject: Relocating DATA Directory

I normally move the file into another drive/Folder and update the nsf reference with the Path/Filename.nsf info.

Subject: Technote Update

I ran into the same problem and confirmed that 8.5+ requires the registry change you indicated. They said they’d update the following technote:

Move data directory of Domino Server to different drive

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21408973

Subject: Updated Registry Path - 32-bit Domino on 64-bit Windows

If you’re running a 32-bit Domino install on 64-bit Windows (e.g. Windows 2008 Server) the registry paths is slightly different:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Lotus\Domino

and

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Lotus\Domino\1

Probably well known to W2008 experts, but hopefully someone will find this useful (and save time digging around in the registry).

As an aside, it appears that the IBM technote has yet to be updated…