Re: Domino subdirectory is a Symbolic link to a linux share

[Chris Whisonant <Chris.Whisonant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't see why it wouldn't work as just an NFS share.

We thought at one time of using a NetApp Network Attached Storage device 
to store data from Domino. NetApp and IBM had whitepapers at NetApp's 
website for running this with Domino. NetApp said that this is awesome for 
Wintel, but for iSeries it's not performance friendly because the data had 
to be converted from 64-bit iSeries data to 32-bit NAS data.

Then just exclude that NFS share from your backup.

Chris Whisonant
Comporium
Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator
IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2
IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
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domino400-bounces+chris.whisonant=comporium.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 
01/11/2006 03:33:29 PM:

> Can this be done?
> Is it a bad thing?
> 
> Situation:  Boss wants to:
> a - Retain mailboxes from terminated employees for a duration
> b - Server wide archiving of old mail
> 
> Doing it on primary server will not decrease time to backup.  Also will 
> not reduce usage of disk on that primary server.  Boss has determined 
that 
> he can purchase a new Linux server with 500GB for less than the cost of 
> one 140GB iSeries drive.
> 
> Instead of running Domino itself on Linux what about creating a new 
Domino 
> partition on the iSeries.  Pretend that it's data directory looks 
> something like /ARCHIVE01/notes/data.
> After setting up the server then I do the following i5/os commands:
> ADDLNK OBJ('/qntc/MyLinuxServer/AShareCalledArchive') 
> NEWLNK('/ARCHIVE01/notes/data/archive')
> 
> ... pause to do some testing...
> 
> Discovered some "anomalies" with this and opened up a pmr.  Apparently 
the 
> use of QNTC with symbolic links is unsupported.  I asked if there was a 
> NFS mount or some such animal that I could use instead of QNTC and IBM 
> said they'd up the problem and get back to me.
> 
> Let's say that IBM does get back to me and the NFS stuff is supported. 
> Will this still not work for Domino because of a QNOTES access issue or 
> some such animal?
> 
> Rob Berendt
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