Domino 8 for System i Help - Recovery of Domino for System i

CHAPTER 18 MANAGING BACKUP AND RECOVERY

Recovery of Domino for System i
Domino for System i programs and product files reside in libraries in the QSYS.LIB file system on your iSeries server. Domino databases reside in the integrated file system in a directory path that you specify when you configure your server. Your backup strategy for Domino for System i should include backing up both the libraries (infrequently) and the database directories (frequently).

You might need to recover Domino for a variety of reasons, for example:

Damage to your server, such as fire or flooding
Hardware problems, such as a disk failure
Note i5/OS provides disk protection options (mirrored protection and device parity protection) both to increase availability and to ensure that disk failures do not cause loss of data. You can find out more about disk protection in the Backup and Recovery book (SC41-5304-06).
User or operator error, such as deleting a database or running a month-end procedure twice

Sometimes, you must recover your entire server. At other times, you must recover a specific directory. The following topics provide general information about recovery steps for Domino for System i:

Recovering an entire Domino server
Recovering Domino mail
Recovering Domino databases
Restoring changed objects to a Domino server

For complete procedures and considerations, see the Backup and Recovery book (SC41-5304-06) and the Domino documentation.