There once was a product called SnapManager for Domino (or was it Lotus Notes?)... at any rate, it was discontinued because the need was no longer there: As many have pointed out, Lotus does a good job of recovering itself after a normal filer-based snapshot.

Glenn

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Oliver Bassett Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 4:49 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com; Andrew Guerra Subject: RE: Lotus Notes

Andrew,

I worked with a customer here to deploy NetApp storage with their existing Notes on Windows installation.

The Notes databases are effectively files rather than open databases, so SnapDrive initiated snapshots are sufficient for recovery without having to quiesce them.

The implementation we used was a LUN mapped to the Windows host with SnapDrive. We then created a Windows Scheduled Task to take regular snapshots using SnapDrive. To recover an individual mailbox, you just mount the snapshot of the LUN and copy that users mailbox file out and back into the main LUN, to recover all of Notes to a point in time, you just shut down Notes and do a LUN SnapRestore then remount the LUN and restart Notes.

There used to be some TR's for Lotus Domino, but I can't seem to find them anymore.

Regards

Oliver Bassett Senior Systems Engineer

Infinity Solutions Ltd P O Box 3323, Auckland Ph: +64 9 921 8123, Mob: +64 21 574 994 Fax: +64 9 309 4142 www.infinitysolutions.co.nz

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Scott Lowe Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 9:30 a.m. To: toasters@mathworks.com; Andrew Guerra Subject: Re: Lotus Notes

Andrew,

I could be wrong, but without application-specific support to quiesce the Notes databases (which is what SME/SMSQL/SMO do), then you won't be able to get guaranteed consistent snapshots. In addition, even if you do get good snapshots, you would still need some level of application-specific software (like SMBR) that understands the Notes database format and has the ability to reach into a snapshot and retrieve specific pieces of information.

Without these application-specific pieces, you are left with the ability to take "ordinary" snapshots (I would assume of a LUN, since Notes probably doesn't support mounting databases over CIFS or NFS) and then using SnapRestore to restore those snapshots as needed. I'm not intimately familiar with Lotus Notes, but if you could restore the database from snapshot to an alternate location you could then use Notes-specific software to retrieve specific items from there.

Hope this helps, Scott Lowe Senior Engineer ePlus Technology, Inc. slowe@eplus.com Office: 919.326.3641 Fax: 919.326.3691 Mobile: 919.274.0462

On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Andrew Guerra wrote:

Has anyone installed, implemented, deployed Lotus Notes with a NetApp filer? I know there "SnapManager for Lotus Notes" doesn't exist so how can I do this with the same functionality and SME, and SMBR for that matter. I would appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks

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