Lotus Domino Servers do not support backup via Microsoft VSS

Document ID:7008575
Creation Date:12-May-2011
Modified Date:27-Apr-2012
- Micro Focus Products:
  PlateSpin Forge
  PlateSpin Migrate
  PlateSpin Protect

Environment

Applies to: Portability Suite 8+, Migrate 9+, Protect 10+ and Forge 2.5+

Situation

As per IBM, it is known that Lotus Domino Servers do not support backups using VSS.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463&context=SSKTMJ&dc=DB520&dc=DB560&uid=swg21196479&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en&rss=ct463lotus

A migration job will complete successfully with no errors. The target Lotus domino services will likely not start properly as the migration of the files it uses are not in sync with each other. You may get errors about files missing.