What is the best way to automatically shut-down a Domino server at a set time each night and have it started again at another set time? I would like to take the server down automatically each night from 12pm through 6am for tape backup purposes.
Thank you for any help.
Shawn~
Subject: Restarting Domino Server
We stop and start notes on our backup server to run tape backups. We specify pre and post backup jobs with BackupExec that run ‘net stop’ and ‘net start’ commands to stop and start the Domino service.
You could also use a program document to stop Domino and then schedule a task in the OS to start it again.
Note: if you have the server down for the hours you mentioned, make sure that you reschedule the nightly maintenance tasks to run at other times.
Subject: Restarting Domino Server
Assuming you have Domino running as a service, create a couple batch files using the net stop and net start commands. You can then schedule them using the NT/2000 schedule service.