Restoring Domino NSF databases

The first step in the recovery process is restoring the data, activation is the second step.

Domino databases must be restored after a device failure or after a database is corrupted. Domino databases are restored by reloading a database backup and optionally applying updates from the transaction logs that were made after the backup was taken. Database backups can be restored over corrupted databases or to a different database file. When you restore a database to an existing file, that existing database is overwritten with the information from the restored version.

Follow these tasks to restore a Domino NSF database:

Click Restore in the Data Protection for HCL Domino web client window. If you are not logged in to the server, the Data Protection for HCL Domino login window opens. Log in to open the Restore window.
In the View list in the directory tree, select Domino NSF.
Expand the directory tree for Data Protection for HCL Domino to show your Data Protection for HCL Domino node. This is the node name that is specified in the Data Protection for HCL Domino options file.
Expand the directory tree next to your Data Protection for HCL Domino node to show available Domino servers.
Expand the directory tree next to the Domino server that contains the databases to restore.
Expand the directory tree next to Databases to Restore.
Select the databases that you want to restore.
(Optional) If you want to run a point in time restore, click Point In Time and specify the date and time.
(Optional) If you want to activate the databases, click Options and check Activate Databases on a Restore.
Click Restore. In a multiple Domino server partition environment, only one Domino server can be restored at a time.
Note: To display information about a Domino object from the Restore window, select the Domino object, click the View menu and then File Details. Information about whether the restore is compressed, deduplicated, or encrypted is available.