When you view Lotus Domino databases in the restore selections pane, two backup sets appear for each Lotus Domino backup job. The first backup set contains the Lotus Domino databases and the second backup set contains the transaction logs.
To restore data, selections should be made from the backup set that contains the Lotus Domino databases; the required transaction logs are automatically restored with the selected database.
Lotus Domino data is usually contained in the most recent backup set. However, some subsequent differential or incremental backup jobs run after a full backup job may not contain data in the backup set because only the transaction log was backed up. If the data you want to restore is not located in the most recent backup set, check the previous backup sets until you find the data.
For example, the Domino server has a Full backup and a Differential backup. If you decide you want to restore data from Differential backup, you may select the Data1 directory and find that it is empty.
The following graphic shows an empty data directory.
The data backed up for Differential backup is actually contained in the transaction log backup set. To restore the data, you must select it from the previous Full backup.
The transaction logs from Differential backup will be used to bring the database up to date.
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