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Steps for upgrading to Notes/Domino 8 from

versions 6.5 and 7


Technote (FAQ)

Question
What is the recommended procedure for migrating from Lotus Notes® and Domino® 7.x to
Notes and Domino 8.x.?

Answer
This document is written to be platform-independent. Additional information to run the
specific commands for each operating system can be found in the following online
documents.
Platform specific information regarding Lotus Domino commands
UNIX: "Running compact, fixup, and updall on AIX, Linux, and Solaris when a Domino server
is down" (#1303727)

IBM i (AS400): "How to run Fixup, Compact, or other command while the Domino iSeries
server is down" (#1102349)

Windows: To run Domino server commands while the server is shut down (offline), add the
letter "n" to the beginning of the Domino server command (required when Domino is shut
down, Windows platforms only).

1. Open a command window (Start --> Run --> type "cmd" --> click Enter).
2. Navigate to the file system folder where the Domino server is installed (same directory
where nserver.exe is located).
3. From that path, type the Domino server command in the command window, adding the
letter "n" before the name of the Domino server task, as follows:
x:\Lotus\Domino\nfixup names.nsf -f -j -v -l
x:\Lotus\Domino\ncompact names.nsf -c -i
x:\Lotus\Domino\nupdall admin4.nsf -R
x:\Lotus\Domino\nupdall admin4.nsf -X

Refer to the Domino Administrator 8.0 Information Center topic, "Entering commands at the
console at the server."

Before Upgrading
Before upgrading to Domino 8.x, ensure that database is pristine by:

• Running the fixup, updall and compact maintenance tasks. These optional steps are
suggested to remove any potential corruption.
• Shutting down the Domino server to ensure that no server or client-invoked calls
are modifying server data while these maintenance tasks are running.

1. a) Run fixup (consistency check) against all databases using the command, Fixup -f -j -v
-l.
NOTE:
-f Exhaustive fixup, all documents are checked.
-j Include transaction-logged databases. Without this option, fixup does
not check logged databases.
-v Exclude database views (faster) for all views that will be rebuilt by
updall later, no need to check view at this moment.
-l Log all processed databases (optional).

If you are running transaction logging, you must use the -j switch.
b) Run updall against all databases using the commands, Updall -R and Updall -X.
NOTE:
-R Completely rebuilds the view indexes.
-X Completely rebuilds the full text index if the index exists.
c) Run compact against all databases using the command, Compact -c -i.
NOTE:
-c Uses copy-style compaction and recover unused white space.
-i Ignores errors and allows compact to run anyway (only for copy-style).

If you are running transaction logging, be sure to use the -b switch. This
is different from the upper case -B switch (-B will change the DBIID of
any transactionally logged databases).

CAUTION: Use the "load compact -c -i" command with care since in
some case, the Domino server has crashed on this task. For more
information, refer to Document #1329103, "load compact -c -i" ignores
all errors and should be used with caution in Lotus Domino 8.0.2".
2. Because Domino 8 is scaled to handle more users concurrently, it is recommended that

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