Specifications

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Note: Although the default value for “minimum size…” of 64kByte is good for new deployments, we

recommend to start using an higher value (for example, 1024000) first, and decrease it at a later stage.

When applying changes to this value, actions in “Enable DAOS for Databases” (below) must be performed

again.

• Save the Server document and Shutdown the server.

• Restart the Domino server

• Configure your OS Backup to back up the DAOS repository

Since DAOS files will never change, a monthly full backup and daily incremental backups are enough.

Note: You may want to configured your operating system Antivirus scanner to exclude the DAOS directory,

or at least exclude *.NLO from scanning, otherwise the server performance will be impacted.

Enable DAOS for Databases

Now that the server has been configured to support DAOS, you can enable the first databases for DAOS.

• To enable DAOS on all databases use the following server command.

load COMPACT -daos on

Use the Administration Client to multi-select databases under the File tab and use the Advanced

Properties option.

Note: Both methods will actually not enable DAOS, instead a setting within the database properties

will be set for being used when compacting the database (see next step)

•

To DAOSify existing databases

load COMPACT -c

• To enable DAOS and compression in one single step:

load COMPACT -c -v -n -daos on

This command will move the existing qualifying attachments into DAOS, compress existing design

documents and compress existing data documents

Enable DAOS for Mail Box

Starting with Version 8.5.1, Domino is able to benefit

• Run compact on the template, mailbox.ntf on your server in order to upgrade it to ODS 51. By

default, it is ODS 43. Use copy style compact to upgrade the template to the current level (ODS

51).