Our Domino team needs to upgrade from Domino 8.0.1 to Domino 8.5 but I want to make sure we are going to be able to back up can you please confirm ASAP before they upgrade.

Backup Exec will be supporting Domino 8.5 with our next full release of Backup Exec which is currently planned for calendar Q4 of this year. We will be fully embracing DAOS support as well as providing support for 32-bit Domino running on a compatible 64-bit Windows OS. We are also gearing up for our closed BETA and are looking for customers that are running Backup Exec as well as Lotus Domino 8.5. If you meet this criteria and are interested in participating please go to our "symbeta" site and sign up! SymBeta

Does Backup Exec 12.x support Domino 8.5?

39 Replies

JustinPerot
16 years ago
elreyjesus1,

Did your messaging team move forward with the install and were you still able to backup the mail files? I am in the exact some predicament. We are running BUE12.5 and need to move our Domino environment to 8.5. I am specifically concerned with the compatibility of the new Domino 8.5 features of DAOS-Single file instance (Domino's de-duplication tool) and the new file extensions it creates (NLO files).

Thanks, J
Message Edited by JustinPerot on 02-10-2009 10:26 AM
elreyjesus1
Level 3
16 years ago

You know what... that I'm still in the same predicament. These forums are not that great for getting feedback! It takes such a long time IF any.

Please if somebody has any testing experience with this, let us know.

backup exec 12.5 and Lotus / Domino 8.5
Ken_Putnam
Level 6
16 years ago

According to the latest v12.5 SCL (date 2008-12-11), v12.5 supports Domino v7 -> v8.0.2 on NSF formated databases only, on both 32 and 64 bit OS
elreyjesus1
Level 3
16 years ago

Yes I've seen that and that is the official reply that I've gotten. That is pretty outdated though. So I'm still left without a fresh answer. Unless I take the initiative to build a test server and do my own tests.

I was hoping somebody would have done that. Maybe even if there was an ETA from Symantec on supporting 8.5
elwappo
Level 3
16 years ago
This is rather important to people buying agents for backup exec and such. What are the plans here to fix these issues that are surfacing against 8.5 domino servers. An offical reply is needed by your customers.
Ben_L_
Level 6
16 years ago
It has not been tested by our QA department yet, so it will not be listed on the SCL. Support will not have any docuementation on possible issues that may arrise with 8.5. We can give it a best effort for support ot attempt to get 8.5 to work, but at the end of the day if it does not work there will not be much we can do until our QA / Dev teams either update the agent to support 8.5 or say no it won't work.
Joji
Level 5
16 years ago
I am in the same boat as elreyjesus1 and elwappo. I need to know this info ASAP also . We had a lot of issues with ver 12 backing up Domino servers. I hope your QA/Dev teams has addressed these issues without the users manually tweeking the registry.
elwappo
Level 3
16 years ago
however this should be on someone's plate to get working asap. Domino 8.5 is not a beta release. It's an official release. I'm sure that there are alot of customers that are going to hit this wall very quickly. I know Lotus isn't the choice email system nowadays but many companies use it for their email and database platforms.
MikeJB
Level 2
16 years ago
Understand what Ben L says about QA not having started testing but this is seriously delaying my companies upgrade programme and our confidence in product support. About half our servers use another backup product which has been certified for Domino 8.5, the other half use BUExec. Without some timeline for certification, I guess we will seriously need to consider our options concerning these servers.

Ben - Can you please advise when certification is likely?

Thanks
GypsyMage
16 years ago
My company is also in the same boat. Any ETA on Domino 8.5 certification? IBM Domino 8.5 is already on Hotfix 3...