IBM Lotus Notes and Veeam

[CobusOlivier]

Good day,

I have done some research in our environment. We run a vmware environment with Lotus Notes as our mail servers, the Lotus Notes team runs weekly tasks that includes compacts on the mail file (*.NSF) this compact job touches all mail files and this creates a temp NSF files. This seems to change the CBT from 0 to changed and thus the veeam backup incremental sizes are then much larger than normal nightly backups.

We see a rate of change of between 7 - 15Gb per night and nights after the the Notes Team run the compacts we see incremental backup files between 150 - 250Gb. This then causes our backups to over run the backup windows.

Our Notes servers are set up with different drives for DOAS, Data, Logs and Rebuilds.

I would just like to know from other users of Veeam if they have seen similiar situations with Notes and Veeam.

[foggy]

Hello, running maintenance tasks expectedly affects incremental backup size, since it typically causes a significant amount of changes to virtual disks. Among recommendations to decrease this effect is running them less frequently and/or prior the active full backup.

[CobusOlivier]

Hi Foggy,

The maintenance tasks according to our Notes Administrators these tasks can't be run less frequently. We also runs reversed incremental and only do a active full once every three months.

[Gostev]

Yes, what you are seeing is totally expected for Lotus Notes and similar applications.

[dkvello]

As You do, I too run FT Rebuild, OS TEMP, Logs and other "temporary" i/o on separate disks that I exclude from Backup. This way no temporary changes gets included.

I use ODS 5:2 on pretty much everything an only run in-place (-b) compacts without size reduction.

If You use DBMT to do housecleaning/defrag then there is no option for in-place compact so it will create larger backups with Veeam.

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Create_R9_Log=1
CREATE_R9_DATABASES=1
NSF_UpdateODS=1
DAOS_ENCRYPT_NLO=0
[b]View_Rebuild_Dir=G:\REBUILD\
FTBasePath=E:\Full_Text
DAOSBasePath=D:\DAOS
TRANSLOG_Path=F:\[/b]
TRANSLOG_AutoFixup=1
TRANSLOG_UseAll=1
TRANSLOG_Style=0
TRANSLOG_Performance=1
TRANSLOG_Status=1