I find that our servers run much better if they are restarted once a week. (especially the web server).
What other tasks should I run weekly while the server is down?? (fixup, compact, etc.)
Thanks in advance for your input
-chris
Subject: shutdown maintenance recomendations please
On Windows regular shutdowns can be seen as necessary. The problem seems to be most occurring on HTTP enabled servers on old releases. Upgrade to W2K and ND6 or consider a restart scenario.
On AIX, iSeries and zSeries definitely no restart - should be rock solid.
Subject: shutdown maintenance recomendations please
Hi,
I am running through server program-documents the following actions:
compact -B (once a week)
fixup -F (once a week)
updall -V -F (every day at 6:00 so that all views are refreshed for the working day)
compact mail/ -a (once a week for archiving the mail dbs)
You could run the fixup and compact every day if you have some time-slots and ressources available.
If you want to restart you server periodically then you can use a program document as well:
server -c “restart server”
Bye
Hynek
Subject: RE: shutdown maintenance recomendations please
You should never run fixup as a proactive attempt to avoid corruption. Only use Fixup if everything else including, compact, new replica and new db copy is not enough. Scheduled use of fixup is a no no under Domino with Transaction Logging. Use Transaction Logging which makes the use of fixup almost completely obsolete.
If you do use transaction logging - do not perform ‘compact -B’ - but use ‘compact -b’ as it will not modify the DBIID. Alternatively you should perform a full backup (will be) immidiately after the use of the -B switch.
Subject: shutdown maintenance recomendations please