Reinstalling or moving a Domino server from one computer to another
Use this procedure to reinstall a server if an error occurs and the installer does not complete during the install of an incremental installer, or if the Domino® server is crashing and troubleshooting does not reveal the root cause.
About this task
If you are reinstalling a Domino server, run a full installation of the Domino server and point the install to the previously installed Domino directory on the physical server. This will not overwrite existing system files; therefore, you do not need to perform an initial server setup because the install files will pick up all relevant information from the existing NOTES.INI file. The Domino Directory is not overwritten; therefore, when the server is started again, it will continue as if nothing has changed. Server startup will continue and all previous settings will be intact.
- If the Network Configuration changes, be sure to update the Server document. If the Net Address field on the Server document contains a server IP address, update this field if a new computer with a different IP address is installed.
- Check for Directory Links when performing an upgrade/move.
- Check for any OS level junctions or symbolic links that are defined. Ensure new symbolic links are created on the new server or the files for those links become part of the data directory.
- If the server name is changed, ensure that all encrypted databases are decrypted before copying the files to the new server.
- When moving servers between different operating system platforms, use FTP to relocate the databases or mail files to ensure the codepages are not corrupted. In some configurations, OS copy has caused database corruption.
- If you are moving a server from one machine to another and the
drive mapping changes, for example, from drive C to drive D, change
the following parameters in the file NOTES.INI:
Directory=d:\Domino\Data
NotesProgram=d:\Domino
- Perform a search in the server's NOTES.INI file
to ensure that these parameters are changed appropriately. Perform
a "find" (CTRL + F) on the old drive references and make changes as
appropriate.Note: If you change the server's name when you move it to the new computer, you can notify users to make the appropriate change to their Location documents, or you can make that change for them.
- When moving a server from a Microsoft™ Windows™ platform to a UNIX™ platform, always use the Domino server to replicate the database, primarily because this does not replicate the incompatible view indexes to the new platform.
- When you are moving a server from a Microsoft Windows platform to a UNIX platform, investigate and prepare issues with case-sensitivity for file names and paths.