{"id":1890,"date":"2016-07-11T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.prominic.net\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2023-03-28T18:34:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:34:53","slug":"replicating-notes-databases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.prominic.net\/replicating-notes-databases\/","title":{"rendered":"Using AdminP To Migrate Databases And Create New Replicas"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s an age-old problem: you have brought in a shiny new server host that is going to join your Domino environment and eventually replace your wheezing old server whose fans blow out dust that stinks of death<\/em>. But that old server has accumulated tens or hundreds of databases that need to be moved over to the new server before it can ride off into the sunset. The choices have often been having downtime and client ire for a filesystem-level copy or manually replicating databases over and spending countless hours on the dull task. Fortunately, Domino has the AdminP replica creation<\/strong> tool, which can handle all this for you and, if you know what to look for, is quick and easy to configure.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

The very first thing you\u2019ll want to check is that the servers can connect to each other, have access permissions, and have replication scheduled between the two of them.<\/p>\n

To verify the servers can connect to each other, the easiest thing is to run a trace from the server console. From either inside the Administrator (under Server -> Status -> Server Console<\/em><\/strong>) or directly from the console on the server itself, run a \u201ctrace <<REMOTESERVER\/ORG>>\u201d<\/strong>. If you are successful, the last lines of the trace should something like this:<\/p>\n

Connected to server REMOTESERVER\/ORG<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attempting Authenticated Connection<\/strong><\/p>\n

Compression is Enabled<\/strong><\/p>\n

Encryption is Enabled<\/strong><\/p>\n

If this has failed, you may be able to fix it on the connection document, which is the next item we want to look at. From the Domino Administrator<\/strong> or the names.nsf<\/strong> you can find these under Configuration -> Server -> Connections<\/em><\/strong>. You will most likely see a section for each server in your domain, and you can hit + (shift-=) in order to expand the listing and see all the connections. You can either create new connections or edit existing documents, but when you\u2019re finished you want to have a connection from your old server to your new server and vice-versa.<\/p>\n

In each of these connection documents, there are just a few items on each tab you\u2019ll want to set\/verify:<\/p>\n