I have a RHEL server and wish to migrate to a windows 2003 server to take advantage of traveler. Is it possible to just copy the data directory from the old unix based server to the new machine and then install 8.5 using the migrated directory - or are there some gotcha’s (line endings etc) that i might have to look out for.
Thanks in advance… oh… if they are about to release Traveler for the unix platform then there is no need for my migration.
Subject: Can be done…
I’ve done this successfully … If you are using transactional logging make sure Domino Server shuts down cleanly or flush the logs if the Domino Server does not come down cleanly by simply running any add-in program standalone…
e.g.
/opt/ibm/lotus/bin/fixup fred.nsf
even though fred.nsf does not exist the fixup process will load and flush the trans logs to disk…
once you bring the Domino Server down and begin the copy make sure you don’t bring it back up, else you’ll need to recopy all files… Also you can copy the translog files to the new destination just be sure to update the notes.ini with the new location and update your Server Record as well on your Admin Server of you Domino Directory.
I would recommend running updall on the entire server once you have moved the files as all views currently built are going to need to be rebuilt since you are going from UNIX to Windows and the views are not compatible. If you just start the Domino Server it will rebuild the views as needed and this result in poor performance until the views are rebuilt so better to do this with the Domino Server down.
Subject: Re: Can be done…
Thanks - that really helped - all done now.