Friday, October 18, 2024

Get those Domino System Databases back in shape

It's not unusual for Domino servers to host bloated System databases that rarely get compacted/maintained because it can be an inconvenience to shut down Domino and manually do it. As a result, these databases are often neglected, they miss out on regular maintenance and can also become much larger than they need to be. Typically there can be many GB of disk space trapped inside, just wasting disk space and extending backup windows too, it all adds up, costing time and money. It can also be aggravating for admins and users if they need to interact with these bloated and sluggish databases.

This feature in Domino Optimizer makes it so easy to get these DB's compacted back to an optimised size, free up trapped disk space and give Domino a nice scheduled "Health Restart".

Domino Optimizer makes this as simple as ticking a few boxes, set and forget, and if this is scheduled once a week the difference this can make to disk space requirements, backup times and Domino performance is significant.

Tip: As an added bonus, this can also be a great way to give Domino System DB's an ODS upgrade during the process.

Find out more about the Optimizer here 

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