Friday, 18 September 2015

Domino 9.0.1FP4 vs Backups Exec 2014, round 2

After resisting for a long time I gave up and removed Backup Exec from our production Domino server and set up a separate server just for backups.  I didn't want to purchase another Windows license, and whilst I love linux I didn't want to wrestle with IBM's Linux requirements and their Domino install process (none of which is that bad, but there's only one of me here).

So I popped some extra disk space into my network monitor machine, which is recently new and has lots of spare resources and stuck Domino 9.0 on there, which is fully supported by BE.


  1. I now have a pull-only Domino server, with a 30 min schedule.  This gives me a 30 minute 'quick recovery' window is someone screws up (well, kinda)
  2. The production Domino server no longer gets constant errors reported in the DDM - looks like all the fixups and compact clashes were down to BE
  3. No more disk errors, no more database corruption
  4. Backups no longer get exceptions and run a bit faster too
So I wish I had done this earlier.

The network monitor is another post waiting to be written.  PRTG is a lovely NMS...

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