Preface

About this guide

This guide describes how to install SnapManager® for Lotus® Domino and use its online backup and restore features. This guide does not explain how to migrate, backup, and restore Domino servers. For this information, you must see the SnapManager for Lotus Domino Online Help.

This guide does not explain how to install, configure, and use the SnapDrive^TM features that enable you to create and connect to virtual disks, which you must do before you use SnapManager. For this information and details about how to configure filer volumes and enable filer access, see the SnapDrive Installation and Administration Guide appropriate for your version of SnapDrive. This guide does not cover basic system or network administration topics, such as IP addressing, routing, and other network topology.

Audience

This guide is for system and database administrators who possess a working knowledge of Lotus Domino and Windows® 2000. The discussion assumes familiarity with the following topics:

Lotus Domino server administration
Lotus Notes administration
Network functions and operations
Basic concepts for moving data over a network
Your operating system, network, and Network Appliance^TM storage appliance, such as a filer
NFS and CIFS protocols, as used for file sharing and file transfers

Is this the right guide for you?

Use the following table to determine which documents to read.

If you are...	Read...
Installing filers in an Ethernet environment	The document, Data ONTAP^TM Product Documentation, which is delivered with the filer.
Installing filers in a Fibre Channel environment	The Data ONTAP System Administrator's Guide appropriate for your version of Data ONTAP.
Installing SnapManager on a Window's 2000 system that is connected to a filer and you plan to use Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) as the protocol for your virtual disk	This document. The NetApp Fibre Channel Protocol HBA on Windows Installation and Setup Guide 1.0. If SnapDrive is not already installed, read the following guides in this order before you install it: The NetApp Fibre Channel Protocol HBA on Windows Installation and Setup Guide 1.0. The SnapDrive guide appropriate for your version of SnapDrive: SnapDrive 2.0 Installation and Administration Guide or SnapDrive 2.0.1 Installation and Administration Guide.
Installing SnapManager in a Windows 2000 system that is connected to a filer and you plan to use VLD as the protocol for your virtual disk	This document. If SnapDrive is not already installed, read the guide appropriate for your version of SnapDrive: SnapDrive 2.0 Installation and Administration Guide or SnapDrive 2.0.1 Installation and Administration Guide.

Typographic conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions used in this guide.

Convention	Type of information
Italic type	Words or characters that require special attention. Placeholders for information you must supply. For example, if the guide says to enter the `arp -d` hostname command, you enter the characters "arp -d" followed by the actual name of the host. Book titles in cross-references.
`Monospaced` font	Command and daemon names. Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors. The contents of files.
`Bold monospaced` font	Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless you must type it in uppercase letters.

Convention

Type of information

Italic type

Words or characters that require special attention.

Placeholders for information you must supply. For example, if the guide says to enter the arp -d hostname command, you enter the characters "arp -d" followed by the actual name of the host.

Book titles in cross-references.

Monospaced font

Command and daemon names.

Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors.

The contents of files.

Bold monospaced font

Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless you must type it in uppercase letters.

Terminology

This guide uses the following terminology:

Database Instance ID (DBIID) is a value that is located in the database header and that associates the database with specific entries in the transaction log.
Domino Data directory refers to the directory on the Domino server that houses all the Domino databases. Each Domino server or partition server has a Data directory.
File system refers to the native Windows 2000 file system supported by SnapManager using NTFS.
Filer refers to all NetApp® storage appliances.
notes.ini file is a settings file that includes setup selections, the default server ID, the default user ID, Name and Address books, and most program runtime variables the Domino server and Lotus Notes Client. The location of the Domino Data directory is specified in the notes.ini file.
Partitioned server is a single computer configured to run an unlimited number of instances of the Domino server program. Using partitioned servers reduces hardware expenses and minimizes server administration. Each partitioned server picks up it's own notes.ini location from the Domino server.
Volume refers to a functional unit of storage exported from a filer.
A single filer volume might store multiple virtual disks belonging to different Lotus Domino servers.
Virtual Disk is a SnapDrive component that enables filers to interface with the Windows 2000 operating system. There are two types of virtual disks:
- Virtualized Local Disk (VLD) refers to a specific file corresponding to a specific volume on a filer managed by SnapDrive in an Ethernet environment. Within the Windows 2000 operating system environment, a VLD appears as if it were a locally attached disk.
- Logical Unit Number (LUN) refers to a storage target device created by SnapDrive that resides in a storage target (filer) in a Fibre Channel environment. Within the Windows 2000 operating system, the LUN appears as if it were a local disk.
  SnapManager® for Lotus® Domino enables you to use multiple virtual disks (VLDs or LUNs) in the same filer volume.

Special messages

This guide contains special messages that appear in the following circumstances:

Note
A note provides important information to help you install or operate your system efficiently.

Caution
A caution contains instructions that keep you from damaging equipment, crashing your system, or losing data.