The behavior of compact options is changed in 8.5.2 when compact options for DAOS and archiving are used in combination. You can now use a combination of options to DAOS-enable a newly created archive database.
load compact -a -DAOS on mail\database.nsf
When an archive database is newly created during the archive, the new archive database will be Continue reading →

Migrated a Windooze server to Linux today. The files on the server are DAOS enabled and I wanted to get the number of files in the DAOS repository and the overall filesize.
Here is a small shell script that does the job
#!/bin/sh
REPOSITORY=/local/daos
OUTFILE=/local/daos.txt
fCount=`find $REPOSITORY -type f | wc -l`
fSize=`du -ksb $REPOSITORY`
IFS=”/”
array=($fSize)
fDate=$(date +”%d-%m-%Y”)
echo $fDate / $fCount / ${array[0]}>> Continue reading →

Almost one year ago, I wrote about “How To Wast Space” when enabling DAOS on an application. And I assumed that it might not be sure that the compact task will always do the recompress BEFORE the attachments are moved to the DAOS repository.
The recommended way to enable DAOS on an application and recompress attachments Continue reading →

The daoest by default has a large gap in attachment size evaluation between 64k and 1 MB. You may wish to understand the value of setting the object size between these parameters
Set the Notes.ini parameter DAOSEST_BUCKETS to customize the size shown in the report.
For example:
DAOSEST_BUCKETS=16,64,128,256,512,768,1024,2048,3072,4096
The above line sets to 16K, 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K, 768K, Continue reading →

One of our servers had the following error message in log.nsf
“The database F:\data\mail\xxxxxxxxx.nsf has the incorrect DAOS object count, you should run fixup on this database. Using this database in this condition will cause the DAOS catalog to go into the ‘Needs Resync’ state.”
The database already had DAOS enabled but the logical and physical filesize Continue reading →

When your DAOS catalog gets out of sync, it has to be resynced again. This has not do be done immediately, because an out of sync catalog only affects the prune process. DAOS will work even with an out of sync catalog.
An earlier entry in the Lotus Notes and Domino Wiki described, how to automatically Continue reading →

Today I came across an issue with DAOS and DCT. I thought it was an error in DCT. When I setup my test environment, I did not touch the default value for DAOSMinObjSize in the DAOS section of the server document.
After I ran DCT on this server, I found the following entry in the scan Continue reading →

I have configured 2 more services on my Nagios server to check the size and filecount of the DAOS repository.
The filecount is determined by the check_file plugin by Tevfik Karagulle and I use a simple script on my Windows 2003 host to get the folder size in KB.

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Const intWarning = 1
Const intCritical Continue reading →

Maybe I’ve missed something, but since upgrading to HF411 the daosmgr does no longer accept the “tell” command.
If you have setup a resychronization event with DDM ( described here ), pls review your configuration and replace “tell” by “load” to ensure that the command will execute without errors.

Whenever I start my Domino after a clean shutdown, the DAOS catalog needs to be re-synced.
I see the following message on the server console :

The behaviour is reproducable. I have done a fresh installation of Domino 8.5 on Windows 2003 server and configured the server for the first start. After the server has started successfully, Continue reading →