Re: Compacting groups of files

[Chris Whisonant <chris.whisonant@xxxxxxxxx>]

Look into Indirect Files.

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Chris
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On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:41 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a large window of opportunity to compact data files.  Basically
> from 5pm Saturday night to Sunday evening.  I do this by dropping the
> servers and compacting offline to avoid conflicts.  Apparently that isn't
> enough to compact our ARCHIVE1 server.  So I thought of running multiple
> COMPACTs at once by using the technique outlined at
>
> http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/Domino_Deployment_Best_Practices#Efficiently+Upgrading+the+On+Disk+Structure+ODS
> Basically using .ind files to do this.
>
> I am thinking of piping the list of databases to a file and then breaking
> these down by enough chunks to get this done in the time allotted but not
> so small as to negatively impact performance by having too many compacts
> running at once.
>
> How would you recommend initially populating this list?
>
> I don't suppose there's an appropriate wildcard to
> - compact all databases in the mail directory
> - compact all databases in the archive directory
> - compact all databases not in either of the two above directories
> If so, I could break it up by those three chunks to start and see if that
> works.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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