Hi All,
I have purchased new server hardware and 64bit OS for our Lotus Domino 8.5.01 environment.
I have installed Domino 64bit version, and was wondering how I migrate the existing server over.
( previously when both the old and new server was 32bit I would install Lotus Domino on the new machine and then paste the old server files over the top! )
I am thinking I cannot do it quite that easily this time as the old is 32bit the new 64bit? Do I just paste the data folders, notes.ini and server.id file across?
Any pointers? Experiences?
Kind Regards
Adel
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Hi KeremE,
Sorry your comment is confusing me! Maybe my question wasn't clear enough.
I hear you re: NSF files, you can copy them between platforms / 32bit 64 bit etc etc! great.
So to upgrade my system from 32bit to 64bit I:
- paste the .nsf's over
- paste the notes.ini over
- paste the server ID over
and then start up the domino server?
Thanks for your quick response btw!
Adel
Yeah it is all you need to do. You need to paste and copy over .nsf files and .ini (these are the binary files). and paste the .ini (this is already a text file).
Let me clear things out further. Domino is available for several different platforms. This is the only platform dependent part of Domino. Some platforms have different MSB firs or LSB first and even using different character encoding schemes EBCIDIC vs ASCII. But whatever the native paltform supports this is not reflected in the contents of .nsf files. So you can use any .nsf file built in any domino platform to another platform without a problem. Furthermore that is domino code executed over the platform but then the data in .nsf files are interpreted by domino they are not "executed" in binary format they are only interpreted.
You're welcome. I hope this helps.
Cheers,
K.
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by: KeremEPosted on 2009-11-04 at 16:20:36ID: 25745639
Hi,
It is not right that you can not copy files between 32 and 64 bit. . nsf files are architecture independent. You can even move them between different platforms not only between 32 or 64 bit platforms.
I've previously done the same install this way. I've installed the 64 Servers then moved the data to the 64 bit servers and there was problem.
Cheers,
K.