Domino System Administration

Setting Up Transaction Logging

As with the first server, you need to consider whether each additional server will use transaction logging and then tailor it to each server's hardware configuration. Lotus, of course, highly recommends that you enable transaction logging, because it provides tremendous benefits, including greater database integrity, more responsiveness to user demands on busy servers, and faster, more reliable recovery from system failures. However, enabling transaction logging affects your backup procedures as well as when, how, and if you run certain utilities, such as fixup and compact. Be sure you understand all the issues and their implications before you enable transaction logging. For details of how to set up transaction ...